Hellzapoppin'

About Hellzapoppin'

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.

H. C. Potter's Hellzapoppin' is a 1941 comedy music film. Ole Olsen appears as Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson as Chic Johnson, Martha Raye as Betty Johnson, and Hugh Herbert as Quimby.

It runs 84 minutes and was released in December 1941. Written by Nat Perrin and Warren Wilson.

Shelv files it under slapstick comedy, chaos, psychotronic, and anarchic comedy. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 115 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Blazing Saddles make useful companions to Hellzapoppin', all filed under musical.