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You're Next! (1940) Online

You're Next! (1940) Online
1940 Walter Catlett Monte Collins Dudley Dickerson Del Lord
Original Title :
Youu0027re Next!
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy / Crime / Mystery
Year :
1940
Directror :
Del Lord
Cast :
Walter Catlett,Monte Collins,Dudley Dickerson
Writer :
Elwood Ullman,Harry Edwards
Type :
Movie
Time :
18min
Rating :
4.1/10

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Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.

You're Next! (1940) Online

Slocum and Pruitt are two bumbling private detectives tracking a mad scientist, "Baby-Face" Wessell," who looks like he just stepped out of a 1930s Universal horror film. They get involved with secret panels, an ape, underground tunnels and mis-matched stock footage.
Cast overview:
Walter Catlett Walter Catlett - Slocum
Monte Collins Monte Collins - Pruitt (as Monty Collins)
Dudley Dickerson Dudley Dickerson - Sam


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SlingFire

SlingFire

Although the Three Stooges made a lot of comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures, the studio also made many hundreds of comedy shorts during this same era (roughly 1934-1956) with many other comedians, such as Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase and more. In "You're Next!", Columbia paired Walter Catlett and Monte Collins and put them into a plot like you'd expect from the Stooges.

Slocum and Pruitt have a detective agency. They're called to protect a rich guy (Roscoe Ates) from kidnappers. However, they do nothing to stop it from occurring (since they are idiots) and soon their client is in the hands of a madman who wants to turn him into a gorilla! Later, a gorilla appears and the duo spend most of the film running away and acting scared.

The plot involves a sick guy trying to turn people into gorillas. Do I really need to say more than that?! After all, the idea is totally stupid and the film doesn't even have a single decent laugh.
huckman

huckman

A mad scientist wants to turn a millionaire into an ape. Can detective Walter Catlett avoid a similar simian fate when the mad scientist tells him "YOU'RE NEXT"

Bad shorts even happened to Laurel & Hardy, so one can't get too upset over this collection of unfunny jokes. The racist bits are worse than typical for the 40s, though, which argues that obscurity is the best fate for this. Catlett does show he is better than the material -- acting his part like he's in His Girl Friday -- but he is let down by the whole cheapness of the Columbia short subject milieu. I'm not sure why Del Lord fell so far off form for this, though.

For short subject fans only.