Here Comes the Band

HERE COMES THE BAND

CREDITS

1935, 82 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Lucien Hubbard; Director, Paul Sloane; Screenplay, Paul Sloane, Ralph Spence and Victor Mansfield; Cinematography, Charles Schoenbaum; Music Direction, Edward Ward.

CAST

Ted Lowry, Ted Lewis; Happy, Ted Healy; Piccolo Pete, Nat Pendleton; Margaret, Virginia Bruce; Ollie Watts, Harry Stockwell; Don Trevor, Donald Cook; Spanky, Spanky McFarland; Colonel Wallace, Addison Richards; Judge, Robert McWade.

SONGS

Heading Home by Ned Washington and Herbert Stothart; Roll Along Prairie Moon by Ted Fiorito, Albert Von Tilzer and Cecil Mack; Tender Is the Night by Harold Adamson and Walter Donaldson; You're My Thrill by Washington and Burton Lane; I'm Bound for Heaven; The Army Band by Adamson and Lane.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"The plot line concerned the efforts of an impoverished young song writer (aren't they all?) to see that justice is done when a crooked music publisher (aren't they all?) steals his song. He is helped by a wealthy young girl and the finale takes place in a courtroom where the composer has gathered together several ethnic groups from across the country who, at a given moment, start singing to the judge in an attempt to prove that the song in question wasn't only written by the composer in question - but was inspired by American folk music."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"Little more than an excuse for a series of musical items mainly featuring Ted Lewis and His Orchestra, Here Comes the Band was a modest effort, skillfully directed by Paul Sloane. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Not punchy enough for the de luxe trade. . .best as second stringer."
- Variety

This was the film debut of Harry Stockwell.

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