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• Actors: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers, Harry Parke, William Frawley
• Directors: Norman Taurog
• Writers: Clarence Budington Kelland, Francis Martin, Frank Butler, Philip Rapp, Walter DeLeon
• Producers: Samuel Goldwyn
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 23, 1997
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0783111142
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,484 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars MEDIOCRE CANTOR COMEDY., February 23, 2003

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This review is from: Strike Me Pink [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Long considered the weakest of Cantor's six thirties films for Samuel Goldwyn, it was also the their final team effort. Mediocre though it may be, it still has enough going for it to merit the attention of fans of either Cantor or Ethel Merman. In this big-budgeted 1936 outing, the spineless Eddie Pink (!) is continuously bothered by bullies whiles he runs a handy man shop at Millwood University. A lonely milquetoast, his only protector is the kindly but dense Butch Carson (Gordon Jones). Eddie subscribes via mail order, a character-building course which promises to turn him from a mouse to a man by giving him a forceful personality. Eddie later gets involved with crooks, an amusement park & a vivacious torch singer named Joyce Lennox (Ethel Merman, in fine form)...Based upon a novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland which first appeared in the SATURDAY EVENING POST in 1935, the working titles for this fair comedy were DREAMLAND & SHOOT THE CHUTES. Amazingly, this film cost between 1.5 & 2 million dollars to produce. Goldwyn rented "The Cyclone Racer", a roller coaster in Long Beach, Ca. for use in the chase sequences. The role of Copple was originally to have been played by character actor Sam Hardy. After he died following and emergency operation, William Frawley was borrowed from Paramount.