Flying with Music

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Movie
Original title Flying with Music
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1942
length 46 minutes
Rod
Director George Archainbaud
script M. Coates Webster
Louis S. Kaye
production Hal Roach
music Edward Ward
camera Robert Pittack
cut Richard Currier
occupation

Flying with Music is a 1942 American musical film directed by George Archainbaud , produced by Hal Roach and distributed by United Artists .

Harry Bernard gets a job as a tour guide in South America, which suits him very well because he wants to avoid maintenance payments.

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Ann Andrews lives in Florida and is part of high society. She raves about the nightclub singer Juan Matanza, who appears in the Caribbean and whom she only knows from a photo that he sent her along with an autograph. To see him in person, she convinces her father to let her travel there with four of her friends, which she declares as an educational trip. Miss Mullen, an elderly lady, will accompany her, she tells her father just to be on the safe side. However, he insists that another companion, an older gentleman, also come along. Without Mr. Andrews' knowledge, however, shortly before the flight, he transfers his job to the stranger Harry Bernard, who is unknown to him, because he suffers from severe fear of flying. Harry's job is just right, as he tries to evade New York detectives Joe and Wilbur, who are on his heels because of outstanding maintenance claims - he believes. On the flight, Don Terry, one of the pilots, advertises Ann. She tells him that she will visit the singer Juan on the island because she has been dreaming about him for a long time. When she found out after landing that the man of her dreams was performing in a club on the island of La Monica, she met with a lot of love from Harry when she asked him to go there, as he still felt persecuted.

When they arrive, they are drawn into the hustle and bustle of the carnival events that are taking place everywhere there. Finally they end up in the club where Juan is performing, where Ann, to her great disappointment, has to find out that the picture the singer sent her must have been from the time when he was much younger and many pounds lighter was. Ann now knows that her love belongs to Don, which she wants him to know as soon as possible. Harry in turn runs into the arms of the two detectives and is completely taken aback when he learns the reason for their search. You bring him the news that he has won a not inconsiderable amount in the lottery.

Production and Background

In the United States , the film was released on May 22, 1942, but it did not premiere until December 5, 1942 and was then generally released in cinemas at the end of December 1942.

The working title of the film was Cobana , some publications also noted the working title in the notation Cubana . Flying with Music was one of the short films produced by Hal Roach that were intended to fill the evening with another film. The first of these comedies was Tanks a Million from 1941.

criticism

Classic Film Guide was unimpressed by the film itself, as the story told between the songs that hold it together was "pretty lame". The fact that the comedy only has a running time of about 45 minutes is "lucky" in this case.

Awards

1943 were Edward Ward (music), Chet Forrest and Bob Wright (text) with her song Pennies for Peppino from the soundtrack of this film for Oscar nomination, but the on Berlin Irving and his song White Christmas from the dance film music, music went. Edward was also nominated for “Best Score in a Music Film” for Flying with Music . However, the Oscar went to Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld and the musical film Yankee Doodle Dandy .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flying with Music at IMDb (English). Retrieved February 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Flying with Music. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Flying with Music (1942) - Notes. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Flying with Music (1942) at Classic Film Guide (English). Retrieved February 22, 2014.