Summary
Backstage at a ramshackle vaudeville palace, a frazzled propman—equal parts saint and sap—navigates a labyrinth of collapsing backdrops, wind machines that howl like banshees, and a rooster whose every cluck detonates nitroglycerin. While the curtain rises on a threadbare melodrama, a quartet of gangsters slither through the wings, intent on cracking the house safe and skipping with the week’s payroll. Between exploding poultry, runaway flats, and an Oliver Hardy cameo that feels like a cosmic pratfall, chaos pirouettes into slapstick apocalypse until the propman rewires the mayhem and turns the thieves into unwitting stars of the final curtain.
Synopsis
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
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