Funny Axis?

NAZTY NUISANCE-1943-Bobby Watson returns as Hitler in this WW2 comedy sequel to THE DEVIL WITH HITLER. The Fuhrer visits a mythical middle eastern nation to sign a peace agreement. Joe Devlin is Mussolini and Johnny Arthur is Sukiyuki, the Japanese counterpart. Frank Faylen is a shipwrecked seaman who poses as a local island tribe's magician. There's a lot of politically incorrect and outright racist humor and slapstick gags involving magic and an orangutan. Jean Porter plays a native girl who helps Faylen out. Henry Victor (WHITE ZOMBIE) is one of Hitler's emissaries. The stupid trio wind up on a German sub (which Americans hijacked) trapped at the bottom of the ocean. The axis partners get shot out head first into a sand dune at the end. Ian Keith and Emory Parnell are also in it.

Though it was directed by Glenn Tryon who also did THE DEVIL WITH HITLER this isn't nearly as good. Star Watson played Hitler in at least 10 features!

Lock Up Your Daughters!

DELINQUENT DAUGHTERS-1944-This movie purports to be a warning to audiences about teenagers running wild due to their parents' uncaring ways. It's similar in style to REEFER MADNESS and I ACCUSE MY PARENTS in it's serious but corny and unintentionally funny tone (It probably also influenced Ed Wood's THE VIOLENT YEARS).

After the suicide of a high school girl a police detective (Joe Devlin) investigates. The innocent June (20 yr. old June Carlson) gets involved in robbery, drinking and wild dancing through her friend Sally (22 yr. old Teala Loring; also in THE RETURN OF THE APE MAN and a couple of BOWERY BOYS movies) at a club called "The Merry Go Round" run by Mimi (Fifi D'Orsay) and sleazebag partner Nick.

One charcter proclaims: "Nobody ever gives a darn about us kids. We have feelings just like adults". Although the script, acting and direction in this sleazy and sappy story are sub-par (Hey! It was produced by PRC!) the worse parts are the night scenes that are too dark to see what's going on! I haven't seen the DVD version shown above but the print I saw was choppy and worn.

Director Albert Herman made a bunch of low budget movies I'd like to see (THE PHANTOM OF 42ND STREET, SHAKE HANDS WITH MURDER) and later did some TV work.

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Slaptick Dictator

THE DEVIL WITH HITLER-1942-This 44 minute slaptick comedy from Hal Roach studios has Gesatan, the devil (Alan Mowbray) trying to save his job as boss of Hell because the other devils want to replace him with Adolf Hitler! He goes to Earth to try and make Hitler (Bobby Watson) do a good deed. Joe Devlin is Mussolini and George E. Stone is Suki Yaki. There's a lot of slapstick, one liners and jokes about executions. The freaky part is when Hitler talks about how horrible concentration camps are!

It's very much in the vein of the 3 Stooges shorts YOU NAZTY SPY! and I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN (both made first). Douglas Fowley plays an insurance salesman and Herman Bing is a Nazi astrologer who's executed. Philip Van Zandt, John Miljan and Rudolph Anders have un-credited roles. In the end Hitler is chased by devils with pitchforks and Gesatan promises: "This is only the beginning, folks!".

Director Gordon Douglas had made SAPS AT SEA with Laurel & Hardy the year before and later made THEM!. Watson portrayed Hitler at least 9 times during the 1940's.

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