Swing, Monkey, Swing

September. 10,1937

Rating：

6.3

Genre：

Animation

Keywords：

Jazz

Trailer Synopsis Cast

A scarce and seldom seen cartoon from 1937 with excellent hot jazz and containing caricatures of Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis and Bessie Smith.

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Reviews

SpecialsTarget

1937/09/10

Disturbing yet enthralling

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Merolliv

1937/09/11

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

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Aneesa Wardle

1937/09/12

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Tayyab Torres

1937/09/13

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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Choccy Cat

1937/09/14

What a great Columbia cartoon! Hot jazz with a galloping "St Louis Blues" vocal at the end. This was a big surprise after suffering some pretty lame Columbia cartoons for their 1936 offerings.Can't be well known as Scrappy gets a credit. It's a Color Rhapsody with no trace of Scrappy! These Columbias brought to us by a great guy deeply involved in cartoons, in UK these things likely never seen since released, if ever shown perhaps.The band is likely Cab Calloway with his hot sound, an unknown (to me) female vocalist sings St Louis Blues, would be great to find out who, as it's not the 1930 hit version with Cab singing.

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