the verification email.To resend the verification email, please enter your email address and click Submit. Please enter your information below to create your own personal account with tcm.com Your social account may not have provided your email to us. In L.A., the boys attend a hotel club act by the Four Ink Spots and narrowly avoid getting arrested by the P.I. Films included are ones referenced by title, mistitle, plot description, or character in Charlie…Musicals are my favourite film genre. That includes one scene where three employees tap dancing on a table that's honestly just fucking And then very quickly the pair go out to sea with that yacht captain, and then the slapstick actions turn tropical, and the whole thing changes. LEONARD MALTIN CLASSIC MOVIE GUIDE, COPYRIGHT 2005, 2010. Please confirm or enter it below to complete your profile. Not only does it delay the launch of the story, but it’s also just really boring. I’d say it’s too little too late, but it’s actually too much. Additionally they find on the island Lionel Atwill (from “Son of Frankenstein” and “Mystery of the Wax Museum”), who has some kind of scheme to steal an undefined treasure from the natives. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.There are a few too many musical acts that unnecessarily slow the picture. Could people in the 1940s not comprehend anything if it didn't involve singing?A lightweight comedy from Bud Abbot and Lou Costello, which takes the boys (couple of bus drivers from Chicago who get fast-talked into stealing a bus to the coast and then shanghaied onto a boat) to an unnamed island full of Polynesian racial stereotypes and women with styled hair, makeup, and skimpy clothing. Overview of Pardon My Sarong, 1942, directed by Erle C. Kenton, with Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, at Turner Classic Movies It’s not them at their best, it’s too big of a film for A&C’s style, but very cool to see the Ink Spots. Also, nobody says ”No”/“Nooo” as comedically as Abbott!One of Abbott and Costello's most nonsensical films finds the duo as bus drivers on the run after accidently stealing their own bus who somehow find themselves aboard a racing yacht heading to Hawaii which veers off course and lands them on an uncharted Pacific island inhabited by a singing and dancing native tribe populated by numerous beautiful ladies. But putting that aside for a moment, let’s not get distracted from the fact that this movie is also extremely bizarre. The plotting, pacing, and general construction is terrible. Actually this may be the first time I saw Abbott get to straight-up be the comic, when he poses as a French magician to fend off a detective on their tail. I’ve always regarded him as amongst the best there ever was, he was just really great at levelling out Costello’s zaniness and setting up those gags. The plotting, pacing, and general construction is terrible. The film's original draft, dated July 19, 1941, was titled Road to Montezuma.. Trivia about Abbott and Costello’s Pardon My Sarong: Universal had smash hits with Abbott and Costello’s service comedies.
Directed by Erle C. Kenton.Written by True Eames Boardman, Nat Perrin, and John Grant. It's all very silly as one expects from an Abbott and Costello film but there are lots of top notch crazy comedy bits that make this one well worth your time…A lightweight comedy from Bud Abbot and Lou Costello, which takes the boys (couple of bus drivers from Chicago who get fast-talked into stealing a bus to the coast and then shanghaied onto a boat) to an unnamed island full of Polynesian racial stereotypes and women with styled hair, makeup, and skimpy clothing.
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A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. The Ink Spots performed in this movie and were portrayed as waiters.
And that is all fine--I mean vaguely uncomfortable, as these things are in 2019,…Seeing Lionel Atwill and Lou Costello in a physical fight was a site to see. Pardon My Sarong feels oddly disjointed, like two ideas that couldn't quite be stretched into two films and so have been slapped together to form one. He was great! Worth checking out for Leif Erickson dressed as a drag queen’s take on the Statue of Liberty.South Seas silliness from the boys on a tropical island straight out of a Hollywood nightclub's decor. The second highest grossing movie of 1942 sees Universal continuing to support their top acts with decent scripts, but the routine is starting to feel a little familiar. Making a list because I can. Universal had smash hits with Bud Abbott's and Lou Costello's service comedies.
In L.A., the boys attend a hotel club act by the Four Ink Spots and narrowly avoid getting arrested by the P.I. The movie starts with them having lifted a bus to transport a yacht captain (and his own pilfered crew), and then some weird nightclub scenes where the Ink Spots croon (and are great). Song and dance numbers abound, including some very good routines from Tip, Tap, and Toe, an African-American jazz tap dance act (they also appear in “Hey Good Lookin!” and “You Can’t Have Everything”). It struck me watching this time just how great Bud Abbott was as a straight man. They try to make up for it in third act, however, packing in the most action I’ve ever seen in an Abbott and Costello film into the last 10-15 minutes. It's was all very fast and funny but still couldn't tell you the plot or what the bad guy's scheme was.Just bad. I’d say it’s too little too late, but it’s actually too much.