Line #15 Film/SwingParadeOf1946


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3	''Swing Parade of 1946'' is a PublicDomain musical comedy movie directed by Phil Karlson, starring Film/TheThreeStooges and Gale Storm (later of ''My Little Margie'' fame).
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5	It tells the story of Carol Lawrence (Storm), an aspiring singer who's down on her luck. One day, Carol – after ''several'' misunderstandings and after kitchen staffers Moe, Larry and Curly vouch for her – lands a job singing in Danny Warren's (Phil Regan) new nightclub. But Danny and his right-hand man Moose (Edward Brophy) are on the lookout for process servers sent by Danny's father, a newspaper man who considers the nightclub biz beneath Danny and a waste of time and is looking to shut down the place. Can Danny make a go of the place before his father can have it shut down? Will Danny and Carol act on their attraction to each other?
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7	The movie also features musical numbers from Connee Boswell and the Louis Jordan and Will Osborne orchestras, as well as Gale Storm herself singing "Stormy Weather" and "The Sunny Side of the Street."
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9	It is available in its entirety in various places online and as a ''Podcast/RiffTrax'' download.
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12	!!''Swing Parade of 1946'' contains examples of the following tropes.
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14	* AlternateDVDCommentary: Riffrax took a swing at the movie, badum tssh.
15	* BadBoss: PlayedForLaughs, but Moose absolutely counts. Every moment, he's screaming or slapping the Three Stooges around. He rarely displays anything aside from vaudevillian rage around them, so much so that you have no idea why they're still employed there by the end of the film.
16	* CoversAlwaysLie: The Stooges might as well be an "and" credit, as they barely appear in the film and their antics basically have almost nothing to do with the very thin main plot.
17	* EarWorm: "Caldonia" is actually pretty damn catchy.
18	* ExcusePlot: The movie is very transparent that it just wants to have over the top musical numbers. The "plot" of Danny's father trying to shut down the club is thin at best and is illogically, easily solved at the end.
19	* {{Expy}}: Moose is more or less a stand-in for the Stooges' original ringleader Ted Healy, albeit with a more bombastic personality.
20	* LoveAtFirstSight: Carol for Danny, or so the film wants us to believe.
21	* MistakenForServant: Carol (while trying to serve Danny with legal papers from his father) is waylaid by Danny's dance director, who thinks she's one of the dance girls.
22	* MistakenForSpies: Moe, Larry and Curly humiliate and eject the senior Mr. Warren after mistaking him for someone trying to serve a dispossession notice.
23	* NonIndicativeTitle: There is no parade to be found, and most of the music in the movie isn't swing. There ''is'' however, a ''song'' called "Swing Parade".
24	* OverlyLongGag: Several, but most notably the bit with the Stooges trying to find Moose's watch, and the painfully unfunny Windy trying to convince Moose his poorly done impressions should be included in Danny's show lineup.
25	* PoorCommunicationKills: Inverted: After the encounter with Danny's dance director, Carol is so flustered and upset, that when she finally gets face to face with Danny, she hands him her own eviction notice, rather than the cease and desist order from his father. But Danny thinks she did it on purpose to try and tug at his heartstrings. In the end, she gets the audition she'd been turned away from earlier (the first time she showed up, Moose thought she was trying to serve the papers she actually did have the second time she showed up).
26	** Played straight later, when a process server (let in by Curly) does get to Danny, and mentions that Carol was paid by him to show up when she did. Danny tells her off without letting her explain. And when he's informed how it actually went down with Carol, she runs off without letting him apologize. Or at least she tries: Danny drags her back to the club and Moose keeps her from running off while Danny sings an apology song.
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28	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Danny's club is so incredibly opulent that even the Rifftrax guys can't believe their eyes. He has a huge venue, an enormous number of chorus girls and male dancers all in fancy gowns and tuxedos, wait staff, composers and a symphony and a band, elaborate sets for the singing numbers, headliner musicians...the amount of money it must take to run these shows ''every single night'' has got to be absurd. He'd have to charge a thousand dollars a table to turn a profit, but obviously he's well off enough not to care to downsize the operation.
29	* WordSaladLyrics: It's possible there is some kind of additional context from the 1940s or earlier that the audience ought to know, but the opening number of the movie is "Don't You Worry 'Bout that Mule" and it is exactly what the title suggests--an entire song about not worrying about a mule going blind. It's bizarre, to say the least, given that almost every other song in the movie is a love song of some variation.

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