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Bob Hope Tribute Collection - Big Broadcast of 1938 Xvid 1cd - W.C.Fields, Martha Raye [DDR]
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures film featuring W.C. Fields and Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Hope's signature song, "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger .
CAST:-
W. C. Fields as T. Frothingill Bellows
W. C. Fields as S. B. Bellows
Martha Raye as Martha Bellows
Dorothy Lamour as Dorothy Wyndham
Shirley Ross as Cleo Fielding
Lynne Overman as Scoop McPhail
Bob Hope as Buzz Fielding
Ben Blue as Mike
Leif Erickson as Bob Hayes
John Serry, Sr. as Himself
Russell Hicks as Captain Stafford
Billy Daniels, Leonid Kinskey, Bernard Punsly, Irving Bacon, James Craig
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Produced by Harlan Thompson
Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Russel Crouse
Music by Boris Morros
SONG NUMBERS:
"This Little Ripple Had Rhythm,” instrumental piece performed Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, with integrated cartoon segments.
“Don’t Tell a Secret to a Rose” and the Spanish lyrics to “Zuni Zuni” (called “I Love You” in the film) sung by Tito Guízar, with Guízar playing Spanish guitar on “Zuni Zuni.”
“You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart” sung by Dorothy Lamour and Leif Erickson
“Brunnhilde’s Battle Cry” (from Richard Wagner’s Die Walkure, Act 2 Scene 1) performed by Metropolitan Opera soprano Madame Kirsten Flagstad with an orchestra conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier.
Comedy performance by Bob Hope, Ben Blue and Patricia Wilder; “Way Down South in Dixie,” sung a cappella by Patricia Wilder.
“You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart (reprise)” sung by Dorothy Lamour.
“Thanks for the Memory” sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.
“Mama, That Moon is Here Again” song and slapstick dance performed by Martha Raye and dancers.
“The Waltz Lives On,” sung by Bob Hope, Shirley Ross and chorus. Includes a section from “Truckin’ (They’re Going Hollywood in Harlem)” sung by Martha Raye; and musical sections from “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” and “Charleston.”
SYNOPSIS:- Big Broadcast of 1938
In what is being billed as "The Race of the Ages," the new forty-million-dollar “radio powered” ocean liner S.S. Gigantic (“America’s Challenge for Crossing Record”) is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller S.S. Colossal across the Atlantic from New York’s Pier 97 to Cherbourg in two-and-a-half days. Gigantic owner T. Frothingill “T.F.” Bellows (W.C. Fields) intends to send his nearly identical younger brother S.B. (also Fields) to sail aboard the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble and sabotage the rival ship, enabling the Gigantic and his own Bellows Line to win.
However S.B., who is held back due to a golf game, ends up flying over the ocean to meet the Colossal en route and mistakenly lands aboard the deck of the Gigantic instead, much to the consternation of Captain Stafford (Russell Hicks). Matters are made worse for the Gigantic when S.B.’s outrageously unlucky daughter Martha (Martha Raye) is brought onboard, being rescued after surviving the shipwreck of the yacht, Hesperus V.
Popular OBC radio emcee Buzz Fielding (Bob Hope), who has just been released from “alimony jail” and is broadcasting live from the Gigantic, is trying to juggle his three ex-wives Cleo (Shirley Ross), Grace (Grace Bradley), and Joan (Lorna Gray); his lukewarm girlfriend Dorothy Wyndham (Dorothy Lamour); and his inept microphone assistant Mike (Ben Blue). Buzz does his best throughout the voyage to announce the progress of the race and introduce a series of musical acts for the pleasure of the passengers and OBC’s radio audience.
Meanwhile Dorothy is romanced by First Officer (and inventor of the Gigantic’s enormous radio power plant) Robert Hayes (Leif Erickson), just as Buzz and Joan get sentimental about their broken marriage.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Bitrate: 1295 kbps
Video Resolution: 640x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime: 91 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 91 mins
