Honolulu Lu

December. 11,1941      NR
Rating:
6.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.

Lupe Vélez as  Consuelo Cordoba aka Honolulu Lu
Leo Carrillo as  Don Estaban Cordoba
Bruce Bennett as  Skelly
Marjorie Gateson as  Mrs. Van Derholt
Don Beddoe as  Bennie Blanchard
Forrest Tucker as  Barney
George McKay as  Horseface
Roger Clark as  Bill Van Derhoolt
Romaine Callender as  Hotel Manager
Ernie Adams as  Pierre

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Reviews

Karry
1941/12/11

Best movie of this year hands down!

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BelSports
1941/12/12

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Robert Joyner
1941/12/13

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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Nayan Gough
1941/12/14

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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mark.waltz
1941/12/15

A surprisingly good "B" comedy from Columbia starring RKO's "Mexican Spitfire", this is a tale of mistaken identity where Latina singer Lupe Velez arrives in Hawaii and becomes two different characters, both the star of a bond drive. Consuela is the darling of Marjorie Gateson's society, and Lu is the sweetheart of the navy, having won their admiration during a nightclub show where she amusingly imitates Dietrich, Swanson, Hepburn and Hitler. Ms. Velez's impressions are dead on, and it is hysterically funny to see the Furher in a long evening gown. Leo Carrillo plays her social climbing uncle who has no idea that she is also posing as Lu, and for some reason, makes the military police think she's a spy. Lupe finds romance with the handsome Bruce Bennett who is always being stalked by his buddies (which includes a young Forrest Tucker), while Carrillo is a Latino Groucho to Gateson's stuffy Margaret Dumont type matron.Some future stars appear in smaller roles, although according to the cast list, some of them were deleted from the final print. Velez gets more opportunities to steal the scenes here, as in the "Mexican Spitfire" scenes, she was usually upstaged by Leon Errol. At just over an hour, this is just the type of second feature that audiences clamored for during the heyday of Hollywood, and being just right before America got involved in the war, it is also patriotic to the countries already involved. The scarier thought though is that with its Hawaiian setting that within months of the film's release, Pearl Harbor would be attacked.

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