Word: hellzapoppin
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...happened to 200 new Citroën limousines ordered for the great occasion. And Des Pins, a once tranquil seaside resort where the Algerian government insisted to the bitter end that the second Afro-Asian Conference would take place this week on schedule, looked like a manic blend of Hellzapoppin and The Last Days of Pompeii...
...Lower East Side and has never made a feature film before, Hallelujah is the weirdest, wooziest, wackiest screen comedy of 1963 -and what's more, it cost only $75,000 from concept to can. Often corny and sometimes precious, it is nevertheless a slapstick poem, an intellectual hellzapoppin, a gloriously fresh experiment and experience in the cinema of the absurd...
...analogy is trite, to say the least, but it is also valid. Welles often belabors the author's meaning, but nowhere betrays it, even though he tries too hard to keep the story hoppin' like Hellzapoppin, galloping like a nightmare. Like Kafka, Welles adapts the methods of nightmare to narrative. Time at times turns rubber in his hands, and images live a violent private life; even Welles has seldom matched the visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare...
Died. John Siguard ("Ole") Olsen, 70, deadpan half of that durable comic duo, Olsen and Johnson, and the shrewd box-office mind who made their vaudeville epic, Hellzapoppin, play and pay for many years; of a heart attack; in Albuquerque...
...Chic") Johnson, 66, junior member of the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...