Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from these three, the film hasn't much else. It presents the old plot of the football coach who is too old, the efforts to reinstate him, the star declared ineligible just before the big game, and the eventual winning of the game...
Biggest laughs of the whole film are provided by Holywood's conception of a football game. Among directorial novelties is the timekeeper who fires a gun to denote the end of the game...
...first time a member of a trio ever dressed up in woman's clothes for an act, it may have been funny. One of the Ritz Brothers does just this in their latest film; it is neither clever nor side-splitting...
Connolly suffers in his characterization because Edward Arnold has already given the screen one Nero Wolfe. As the sleuth right-hand man Lionel Standor contributes the only original elements to the film...
High Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement...