Going Places | |
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Directed by | Ray Enright |
Screenplay by | Sig Herzig Jerry Wald Maurice Leo Earl Baldwin |
Based on | The Hottentot 1920 play by William Collier Sr. and Victor Mapes |
Produced by | Jack L. Warner Hal B. Wallis |
Starring | Dick Powell Anita Louise |
Cinematography | Arthur L. Todd |
Edited by | Clarence Kolster |
Music by | Leo F. Forbstein |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Going Places is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright. Dick Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales and gets entangled in his lies.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Jeepers Creepers", premiered in this movie by Louis Armstrong, who sings it to a horse.
Two earlier films, both entitled The Hottentot (1929) and The Hottentot (1922 silent version), were based on the same source. [1]
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
The song "Jeepers Creepers" was nominated for the American Film Institute list AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. [2]
Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren won an Oscar nomination for Best Song for "Jeepers Creepers". The song later would be sung in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Day of the Locust (1975), The Cheap Detective (1978) and the horror thriller Jeepers Creepers (2001). [3]
Cat Ballou is a 1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual role. The story involves a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, only to find that the gunman is not what she expected. The supporting cast features Tom Nardini, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, and Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, who together perform the film's theme song, and who appear throughout the film in the form of travelling minstrels or troubadours as a kind of musical Greek chorus and framing device.
Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical Funny Face by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star, the plot is completely different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included. Alongside Astaire, the film stars Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson.
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Jeepers Creepers 2 is a 2003 American horror film written and directed by Victor Salva. A sequel to the 2001 film Jeepers Creepers, the film portrays the Creeper, a demonic creature and mysterious serial killer who pursues a school bus filled with high-school students. Ray Wise also appears as Jack Taggart, a farmer who seeks to hunt down and kill the Creeper as revenge for his younger son who the Creeper had murdered that same week. Additionally, Francis Ford Coppola returned to the franchise as an executive producer.
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