| 词条 | The Cuckoos (1930 film) |
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| name = The Cuckoos | image = TheCuckoosMoviePoster.jpg | caption = Film Poster for The Cuckoos | producer = William LeBaron Louis Sarecky[1] | director = Paul Sloane | writer = Cyrus Wood | based on = The Ramblers by Guy Bolton, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby[1][3][2] | starring = Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey[1] | music = Victor Baravalle[1] | cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca[1] | editing = Arthur Roberts[3] | studio = RKO Radio Pictures | distributor = RKO Radio Pictures | released = May 4, 1930 | runtime = 97 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $407,000[4] | gross = $863,000[4] }}The Cuckoos (1930) is an American Pre-Code musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in two-strip Technicolor. Directed by Paul Sloane, the screenplay was adapted by Cyrus Wood, from the Broadway musical, The Ramblers, by Guy Bolton, Bert Kalmar, and Harry Ruby. It starred Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and although they had appeared on Broadway and in other films together (most notably RKO's Rio Rita the year before), this was their first time starring as a team. The success of this picture, combined with Rio Rita being their most successful film of 1929, convinced the studio to headline them as the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey, through 1937.[2][3] PlotProfessor Bird (Woolsey) and his partner, Sparrow (Wheeler), are a pair of charlatan fortune tellers who are bankrupt and stranded at a Mexican resort just south of the border. An heiress, Ruth Chester (June Clyde), appears, who is running away from her aunt, Fanny Furst (Jobyna Howland). She is in love with an American pilot, Billy Shannon (Hugh Trevor), but her aunt wishes her to marry the European nobleman, The Baron (Ivan Lebedeff), whom the aunt believes is the "right" type of person for her niece. Sparrow, meanwhile has fallen in love with a young American girl, Anita (Dorothy Lee), who has been living with a band of Gypsies. This creates an issue, since the leader of the Gypsy band, Julius (Mitchell Lewis), has had his eye on Anita for years. When Fannie Furst arrives, she attempts to persuade Ruth into marrying the Baron, but unbeknownst by Fannie, The Baron is only interested in marrying Ruth for her money. During the course of events, Fannie falls in love with Bird, but when the Baron finds out that Ruth is engaged to Billy, he conspires with Julius to kidnap her. During the kidnapping, Anita is also taken, and the girls are taken deeper into Mexico. Bird, Sparrow and Billy track them down and recover the girls, and they live happily ever after. Cast
Song ListAll songs are music by Harry Ruby with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, unless otherwise noted.
ReceptionThe film made a profit of $335,000.[4] The New York Times gave the film a positive review, calling it, "[a] pleasantly irrational screen comedy, with sequences in color and riotous and, at times, ribald buffoonery ..."[5] NotesThis film contains a fiery Technicolor dance sequence with Anita and the Gypsy Queen, titled {{YouTube|2GKCsKZc2vM|"Dancing the Devil Away"}}. The Broadway musical this film is based on, The Ramblers, ran from September 1926 through May 1927 at the Lyric Theater. It had lyrics and music by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with the book by Guy Bolton, Kalmar and Ruby.[6] The film has three of its musical numbers shot in Technicolor: the aforementioned "Dancing the Devil Away", "Goodbye", and the finale, "I Love You So Much (It's a Wonder You Don't Feel It)".[7] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://cinema.theiapolis.com/movie-2MIM/the-cuckoos|title=The Cuckoos: Technical Details|publisher=theiapolis.com|accessdate=June 25, 2014}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|title=The RKO Story|last1=Jewell|first1=Richard B.|last2=Harbin|first2=Vernon|publisher=Arlington House|year=1982|place=New York|page=26|ISBN=0-517-546566}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2438/The-Cuckoos|title=The Cuckoos, Overview|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|accessdate=June 25, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625222352/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2438/The-Cuckoos|archivedate=June 25, 2014}} 4. ^1 2 Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05E3D61638E03ABC4E51DFB266838B629EDE|title=The Cuckoos is Riotous|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=June 25, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625232923/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05E3D61638E03ABC4E51DFB266838B629EDE|archivedate=June 25, 2014}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://ibdb.com/show.php?id=7365|title=The Ramblers profile|publisher=ibdb.com|accessdate=November 14, 2016}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2438/The-Cuckoos/articles.html|title=The Cuckoos: Article|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|accessdate=June 25, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625234338/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2438/The-Cuckoos/articles.html|archivedate=June 25, 2014}} External links
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