Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Leofwine_draca SWING PARADE OF 1946 is a low rent musical from Monogram Pictures that's notable for featuring the Three Stooges in support. The film is chock full of unknown actors and singing talent, some of which is okay, with the proviso that it is, of course, very dated. The Stooges appear in support as typically bumbling waiters who get involved with the plot involving the usual villains and obstacles in the path of those involved. I didn't find it particularly funny.

atogcheese It is a bit of a stretch to call this a film, that is to say, a narrative complete with characters, plot, conflict, a beginning, an end, etc.It seems more to be a collection of random musical material, actors, scenery, and costumes that Monogram pictures had lying around. The three stooges occasionally pop in with their antics to be browbeaten by a character named "Moose", and the female lead threatens the physically inferior male lead with a champagne bottle, but that's about it for genuine entertainment value. A flimsy premise of somebody's dad trying to close his night club (which, despite being on the brink of bankruptcy, can afford massive sets, tuxedos, lavish meals, and neon-fitted instruments) is relentlessly padded out with long dull repetitive musical numbers. In said music numbers, overused songs, costumes, choreography, and sets all gyrate madly about with no relation to each other.This movie might have "historical interest". An ancient cracked Greek cup dug out of the ground might have historical interest, but that doesn't mean you want to drink from it. Likewise, I suggest that you do not attempt to actually watch Swing Parade, which contains neither swing, nor parades. What it does contain is musical dullness with a touch of surreality, people with oddly shaped faces, process servers, and equine blindness anxiety.

slymusic "Swing Parade of 1946" is a film that is probably known only to Three Stooges aficionados, and indeed, the boys are given ample time to do their stuff, even though they are not the most prominent stars in the picture and Curly's failing health at the time put a damper on the famous slapstick trio. This rather obscure film focuses on the excitement of nightclub entertainment, with some great big band swing music for accompaniment, even if a majority of the big bands were drying up by 1946. Two of the featured songs are, in fact, well-known jazz standards ("Stormy Weather" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street"), but all the other songs are completely forgettable and cause the film to drag somewhat. In fact, the singing of "A Tender Word Will Mend It All" by bandleader Will Osborne and Marie Finch (Mary Treen) is probably the only bad & embarrassing moment in the film.Highlights: The colorful personality and dazzling presence of saxophonist/singer/dancer Louis Jordan absolutely steals the show, as he & his Tympany Five perform the fantastic jump tunes "Don't Worry About the Mule" and "Caldonia." The best musical moment for the somewhat shy, naive, overreacting Carol Lawrence (Gail Storm) is her fine rendition of "On the Sunny Side of the Street" as she auditions for nightclub owner Danny Warren (Phil Regan) while the Stooges listen approvingly (and in real life, Curly and Larry were especially fans of jazz). The young Windy Cook is very entertaining with his wild impressions of cars, trains, motorboats, airplanes, ginger ale bottles, and saws. While searching for a watch that slipped down a drain, the Stooges flood the basement of the nightclub, with Curly performing a variation of the maze-of-pipes routine that he started in the Columbia Stooge short "A Plumbing We Will Go" (1940). As waiters, the Stooges give a few customers a hard time; Moe insists to one customer that he have roast beef instead of roast turkey, and Curly sits down with an annoyed couple who haven't had their order taken for over thirty minutes. The boys also humorously eject an elderly gentleman (Russell Hicks), whom they think is a process server, from the club, not knowing that he is the father of Danny Warren! "Swing Parade of 1946" is indeed a special treat, with the two best acts being the Three Stooges and Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five. Also, watch for Edward S. Brophy as the well-meaning, yet hot-tempered, headwaiter Moose; Brophy worked with the Stooges (and their mentor Ted Healy) twice before in the 1933 MGM shorts "Beer and Pretzels" and "Hello Pop!"

Hinopio This is a pretty good movie, it's relatively short and it's got the Stooges, however they're more side characters in this film, but great side characters they were. The plot is also simple, a man opens up a nightclub, but his rich father objects and wants to shut it down so his son will take over the family business. He doesn't want to deliver the paper that will shut down the nightclub himself, so he offers a woman who had just visited the club looking for a job singing (she's just been evicted from her apartment) $50 to deliver it. She gets there and now she is offered a job, so she doesn't even mention the paper. The father sees her name in a newspaper so he heads off to the club himself. The Stooges make an appearance every now and then, and when they do, they steal the show. This movie wouldn't have been all that great without them, but they're in it, so check it out.