Darktown Strutters

[astro]

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Darktown strutters" uses the most elaborate, colorful, and huge props and sets like the interior of the “pot-sicle” freezer complete with an igloo. The costumes are some of the most outlandish in the blaxploitation genre. The biker women wear rhinestoned pink and bright yellow jumpsuits and feather head dresses. The comedy is very basic slapstick which relies a lot on the props and action (like kung-fu moves, pies in the face and other uninteresting activities) rather than interesting dialogue or inventive action. Its overall “weirdness” was so obviously trying to be weird that it became sort of routine.

[Kent_Clark]

I don’t have any opinion on the movie, but it does give me an excuse to quote from the Mary Tyler Moore Show…

Ted: Knock, knock. Come on, Mary, knock, knock!
Mary: (exasperated) All right, Ted, who’s there?
Ted: Anna Maria Alberghetti.
Mary: Anna Maria Albergetti who?
Ted: Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey! Gonna see ya 'bout half past eight…
Cast joins in: Now, Honey, don’t be late.
I wanna be there when
the band starts playing
Remember when we get there, Honey
Two steps, I’m gonna have a ball
I’m gonna dance off both my shoes
When they play those Jelly Roll Blues
Tomorrow night at the
Dark Town Strutters Ball.

[mobo85]

@kunilou

Ted: Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey! Gonna see ya 'bout half past eight…
Cast joins in: Now, Honey, don’t be late.
I wanna be there when
the band starts playing
Remember when we get there, Honey
Two steps, I’m gonna have a ball
I’m gonna dance off both my shoes
When they play those Jelly Roll Blues
Tomorrow night at the
Dark Town Strutters Ball.

This is a (politcally incorrect by today’s standards) song written in 1917 called Darktown Strutters’ Ball (written by a Canadian, interestly enough), which is no doubt where the blaxploitation film got its title.