{"id":41862,"date":"2026-06-11T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41862"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:06:40","slug":"the-devils-cabaret-1930-starring-eddie-buzzell-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41862","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Cabaret&#8221; (1930) starring Eddie Buzzell \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z061126zview_devilscabaret.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"803\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Devil&#8217;s Cabaret <\/i><\/b>(1930)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Nick Grinde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Edward Buzzell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Edward Buzzell, Charles Middleton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Satan is upset.\u00a0 His company, <em>Satan &amp; Company<\/em>, located in Hades is losing too many human souls to heaven.\u00a0 Satan then tasks his assistant, Howie Burns (get it? How he burns. &lt;wink, wink&gt;), to find a way to get more souls coming to Hades.\u00a0 Burns promises his best to do his worst.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Burns creates a nightclub called <em>The Devil&#8217;s Cabaret<\/em>.\u00a0 Burns then stands outside promising all who pass by, &#8220;a night of <em>wild<\/em> entertainment and<em> hot<\/em> jazz.&#8221;\u00a0 Crowds flock to the show&#8230; now will they follow him afterwards?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Devil&#8217;s Cabaret<\/em> is a Technicolor pre-code short.\u00a0 It&#8217;s humorous, clever, entertaining and not a bad way at all to spend 16 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Buzzell, who plays Howie Burns, also wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>The Devil&#8217;s Cabaret <\/i><\/b>(1930) rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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\/2026\/z061126zview_devilscabaret2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Devil&#8217;s Cabaret (1930) Director:\u00a0 Nick Grinde Screenplay: Edward Buzzell Stars: Edward Buzzell, Charles Middleton. Tagline:\u00a0 None. The Plot (beware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862","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=41862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41868,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862\/revisions\/41868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}