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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1404

Check and Double Check

193077 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 76:24
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Melville W. Brown · Public domain

Synopsis

Two taxi operators struggle to keep their open-air business running while transporting musicians to a society party. Their work draws them into a romance complicated by money, a missing property deed and a rival's interference.

Cast

Charles Correll

Freeman Gosden

DirectorsMelville W. Brown

Historical context

The film brings the Amos 'n' Andy radio characters to the screen through white performers in blackface. Duke Ellington and his orchestra also appear; the musical performances share the film with racial stereotypes central to its period comedy.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Charles Correll — Press release says "Photo Gratis"; the source would have been NBC where Correll was the co-star of a hit radio program for many years.; eBay item photo front photo back · Public domain

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