Name: Check and Double Check (1930) | Directed by Melville W. Brown - Full Movie
Uploaded: 2021-07-12T22:45:54+00:00
Duration: 1 h 16 min 24 s
Description: Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the re

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Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's long-running characters.

Check and Double Check is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the top-rated Amos 'n' Andy radio show. The title was derived from a catchphrase associated with the show. Directed by Melville W. Brown, from a screenplay by Bert Kalmar, J. Walter Ruben, and Harry Ruby, it starred Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, in blackface, in the roles of Andy and Amos, respectively, which they had created for the radio show. The film also featured Duke Ellington and his "Cotton Club Band".

Directed by: Melville W. Brown
Written by: Bert Kalmar, J. Walter Ruben, Harry Ruby
Produced by: William LeBaron
Starring: Charles Correll, Freeman Gosden
Cinematography: William Marshall
Edited by: Claude Berkeley
Production company: RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures
Release date: October 25, 1930
Running time: 77 mins.
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $967,000
Box office: $1,810,000