{"id":30769,"date":"2022-10-25T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30769"},"modified":"2022-10-25T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:57:27","slug":"mr-washington-goes-to-town-1941-starring-mantan-moreland-f-e-miller-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30769","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mr. Washington Goes to Town&#8221; (1941) Starring Mantan Moreland &#038; F.E. Miller \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102522zview_mrwashingtongoestotown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mr. Washington Goes to Town <\/strong><\/em>(1941)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:&nbsp; <strong>Jed Buell, William Beaudine <\/strong>(uncredited)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:&nbsp; <strong>Lex Neal <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Walter Weems<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:&nbsp; <strong>Mantan Moreland, F.E. Miller, Maceo Bruce Sheffield <\/strong>and <strong>Marguerite Whitten.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The First All Colored Cast Feature Comedy Ever Made!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wallingford (Miller) and Schenectady Jones (Moreland) are buddies serving time in the county jail.&nbsp; Wallingford sees a newspaper article about a rich man who died and left his hotel to any living relative that he may have had. Since the man&#8217;s last name was Jones and he was from the same area as Schenectady, Wallingford asks his buddy if he may have been related to the rich old man.&nbsp; The two discuss the life of luxury that would come from being a rich hotel owner.&nbsp; As Schenectady falls asleep he dreams&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Miller and Moreland can be favorably compared to Abbott and Costello.&nbsp; Both duos are funny.&nbsp; Miller, like Abbott is the brains of the two and takes advantage of his partner.&nbsp; The difference is that Miller is more of a true friend.&nbsp; Mantan Moreland is one of the most under-rated comedians in Hollywood.&nbsp; He has great timing and his line and non-verbal reactions are priceless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The set-up of owning a hotel presents great opportunities for gags as different guests arrive.&nbsp; We get a magician, a Lonesome Ranger, a guest with a gorilla, an invisible man, and more.&nbsp; Each different arrival provides laughs.&nbsp; The main storyline involves Brutus Blake (Sheffield) looking for money hidden somewhere in the hotel and hoping that midnight arrives before Moreland can pay the balance owed on the hotel&#8217;s mortgage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Mr. Washington Goes to Town <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102522zview_mrwashingtongoestotown2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941) Director:&nbsp; Jed Buell, William Beaudine (uncredited) Screenplay:&nbsp; Lex Neal from a story by Walter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30858,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}