Scratch-As-Catch-Can

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Movie
Original title Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1931
length 19 minutes
Rod
Director Mark Sandrich
script Bobby Clark (template);
Mark Sandrich,
William Grew ,
Johnny Gray
production Louis Brock
cut Ted Cheesman
occupation

Scratch-As-Catch-Can (also Broadway Headliners: Sratch-As-Catch-Can ) is a 19-minute short film by US director Mark Sandrich and the film company RKO Pictures from 1931. The comedy won an Oscar in 1932 - Nomination in the category "Best Short Film - Comedy" , where she acted as a replacement for the previously disqualified entry Stout Hearts and Willing Hands . The Oscar, however, went to the short film comedy The Music Box , which is about a grueling piano transport.

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A couple is involved in an insurance fraud, which leads to further swindles and rip-offs and ends with a lot of noise and hype.

Production notes

The template for the script comes from the comedian and singer Bobby Clark (actually Robert Edwin Clark, 1888-1960) and was registered on July 17, 1931 for copyright . This was implemented by the director Mark Sandrich as well as William Grew and Johnny Gray and filmed by RKO Pictures ; on October 17, 1931 the copyright entry for the film was made.

Bobby Clark appeared in the film with longtime comedy partner Paul McCullough .

On November 6, 1931, the short film was released in the feature film series Broadway Headliners in American cinemas. So far there has been no German publication.

literature

  • Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1, Group 3. Dramatic Compositions. Motion pictures. 1931, Vol. 4, No. 1. Library of Congress, Washington 1931.
  • Edwin M. Bradley: The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 , McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, p. 309. ISBN 978-0-7864-4319-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Awards for Scratch-As-Catch-Can
  2. ↑ Scratch-As-Catch-Can (English). See page in the IMDb
  3. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries 1931, serial no.4335.
  4. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries 1931, serial no.6457.