Mike Fright

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Mike Fright
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Directed by Gus Meins
Written by Hal Roach
Produced byHal Roach
Cinematography Kenneth Peach
Edited by Louis McManus
Music by Marvin Hatley
Leroy Shield
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • August 25, 1934 (1934-08-25)
[1]
Running time
17' 11" [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Mike Fright is a 1934 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gus Meins. It was the 130th [2] Our Gang short to be released. [3]

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Plot

When open auditions are announced for a radio variety program, the local station is besieged by aggressively over-coached "professional kids." Also auditioning is the International Silver String Submarine Band—which turns out to be the gang, equipped (or rather, armed) with home-made instruments.

They suffer through an endless parade of cute kiddie troupers, and accidentally knock over the microphone several times, which inadvertently blows tubes and bulbs in the control room, causing the hat worn by the sound man, played by vaudevillian Sid Walker, to be literally blown off his head, and making his hair stand on end. The gang then steal the show with a rendition of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."

Musical numbers include Jimmy had a Nickel (by Maurice Sigler), My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii , and My Wild Irish Rose (by Chauncey Olcott), which is cut short because the gang is distractingly eating lemons! [1]

Cast

The Gang

Additional cast

Theme song

Mike Fright was the first Our Gang short since Pups Is Pups to not contain the opening "Good Old Days" Our Gang theme song. Instead, it was replaced with the Leroy Shield incidental tune "Little Dancing Girl", which appeared as background music in many of the films and would be the music used for the first 4 minutes of this episode. Because the nature of this film was a talent show with a variety of musical selections, additional background music was not used, nor was it needed.

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Erickson, Hal (2011). "Mike Fright". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  2. 1 2 Demoss, Robert (August 19, 2008). "The Little Rascals Remastered & Unedited Vol. 6 (VHS)". Cabin Fever Entertainment. TheLuckyCorner.com. Retrieved 2013-12-07.
  3. ↑ Maltin, Leonard; Bann, Richard W. (1977). Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals. Crown Publishers. pp. 166–168. ISBN   978-0-517-52675-0 . Retrieved 3 March 2024.


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