Jimmy Durante's movie star Schnarzan faces competition when Baron Munchausen arrives with real man-eating lions. Durante hosts a party to use the lions in his next film, but his rival tries to buy the lions first, leading to a conflict.
Is it worth your time? Look, if you go into Hollywood Party expecting a traditional narrative, you are going to be miserable. It is a scattershot relic from 1934 that feels like a fever dream of vaudeville sketches stitched together with duct tape. If you love old-school slapstick, musical numbers that go nowhere, and ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Richard Boleslawski
Hal Roach
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"Is it worth your time? Look, if you go into Hollywood Party expecting a traditional narrative, you are going to be miserable. It is a scattershot relic from 1934 that feels like a fever dream of vaudeville sketches stitched together with duct tape. If you love old-school slapstick, musical numbers that go nowhere, and seeing legends like Laurel and Hardy try to make sense of a script that clearly didn't exist, you'll have a blast. Everyone else? You’ll probably just be confused. And honestly, fa..."
Sidney Bracey
Howard Dietz, Arthur Kober, Herbert Fields, Edgar Allan Woolf, Richy Craig Jr., Edmund Goulding, Henry Myers
United States
Musical, Comedy
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