- Title: V-8182
- Summary: I SURRENDER DEAR: MUSICAL COMEDY SHORT WITH BING CROSBY, ARTHUR STONE, LUIS ALBERNI, JULIA GRIFFITH, MARION SAYERS. SONGS INCLUDE: I SURRENDER DEAR, OUT OF NOWHERE, AT YOUR COMMAND, I SURRENDER DEAR (REPRISE)
- Description:00:00:39 - BING CROSBY - I SURRENDER DEAR COUPLES DANCING TO BIG BAND. CU MAN WIPING SWEAT FROM HIS BROW, WORKING UP A SWEAT FROM DANCING 00:02:14 - EXT/NIGHT: RAILROAD TRAIN MOVING 00:02:22 - CU PORTABLE RADIO. CUTS TO RAILROAD PASSENGERS LISTENING TO MUSIC ON THE RADIO, FIANCE SLEEPING, MOTHER & DAUGHTER ARGUING ABOUT "NEW MUSIC SOUND" 00:02:51 - DAUGHTER PLAYING TRICK ON FIANCE PUTS PARTY BLOWER IN HIS MOUTH WHILE SNORING, PARTY BLOWER EXPANDING WITH SLEEPING MAN'S BREATH. FIANCE WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR WAKES UP & LAUGHS 00:03:24 - FIANCE GETS STUNG BY A BEE, CU THROBBING PULSATING BIG TOE, MAN IN PAIN 00:03:47 - TWO MEN PULLING INTO TRAIN STATION IN EARLY 1930s CONVERTIBLE, MEETING TRAIN 00:03:59 - MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN KICKS DOWN MOTORCYCLE'S KICKSTAND, ISSUES A SPEEDING TICKET TO DRIVER WHO TRIES TO GET OUT OF TICKET CLICHE "I'M A VERY, VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF THE POLICE COMMISSIONER" 00:04:19 - MAN INSTRUCTING PORTER ON HOW TO HANDLE HIS LUGGAGE ON TRAIN STATION PLATFORM. GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG ON LEASH 00:04:23 - CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY, MAN THINKS WOMAN FROM THE BACK IS HIS SISTER, TURNS HER AROUND & GIVES HER A HELLO KISS, SHE SAYS "I BEG YOUR PARDON". HE DOFFS HAT IN DEFERENCE & APOLOGIZES 00:04:45 - WOMAN'S FIANCE ARRIVES ON THE SCENE, STRANGER MAKES A FEW REMARKS CONCERNING HIS BETROTHED, FIANCE DROPS HIS LUGGAGE IN SHOCK, CLOTHES SPILL OUT ON THE GRASS 00:05:10 - FIANCE DEFENDING HIS BETROTHED'S HONOR, CHALLENGERS THE STRANGER TO A DUAL WITH HIS CANE "EN GARDE" TALLY HO". STRANGER TRICKS FIANCE "LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU", & STRIKES HIM IN THE REAR END WHEN HIS BACK IS TURNED. FOUL PLAY, FUNNY 00:05:59 - FIANCE CHASES STRANGER INTO HOT TAR, SIDEWALK BEING LAID, MAN IN PAIN FROM BURNING TAR. STRANGER THROWS BUCKET OF WATER ON HIS HEAD, COMEDY OF ERRORS. POLICEMAN ARRIVES ON THE SCENE, STRANGER JUMPS IN CONVERTIBLE SAYS "AMSCRAY", PIG LATIN JARGON, THEY SPEED AWAY FOLLOWED BY MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN 00:06:38 - STRANGER ARRIVES AT HOTEL, RECOGNIZES GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG TIED OUTSIDE, PULLS THE LEASH, FIANCE IS ON THE OTHER END. FIANCE DRAWS SWORD FROM SHEATH, YELLS IN ITALIAN AT STRANGER, DOG DRAGS FIANCE INTO SWIMMING POOL 00:07:17 - STRANGER & FRIEND ENTER HOTEL LOBBY, MUSIC GROUPIES RECOGNIZE BING CROSBY, HE STOPS FOR A MOMENT, THEN SPOTS WOMAN HE THINKS IS THE ONE HE MET AT TRAIN STATION, TURNS & LEAVES 00:07:27 - HIS FRIEND TRIES TO MOVE IN ON GROUPIES WHO SNUB HIM & WALK AWAY 00:07:37 - ANOTHER CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. BING THINKS WOMAN AT RECEPTION DESK IS ONE HE MET AT TRAIN STATION, MAKES LEWD REMARK TO THE WRONG WOMAN WHO'S HUSBAND GETS UPSET. BING CHARMS THE HUSBAND IN A BIZARRE MANNER, GETTING OUT OF BEING HIT 00:08:34 - BING'S FRIEND ARRIVES, TRYING TO SMOOTH THINGS OVER MAKES IT WORSE BY CALLING WOMAN'S HUSBAND HER FATHER. BING IN PIG LATIN SAYS IXNAY, IXNAY "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE WHILE WE'RE STILL IN ONE PIECE" 00:08:49 - BING & FRIEND STOPPED BY TWO GROUPIES WHO WANT HIS AUTOGRAPH, BING TELLS THE LATER, NOT NOW, THE WOMEN FOLLOW THEM UPSTAIRS 00:08:55 - BING / STRANGER RUNS INTO NEMESIS / FIANCE COMING OUT OF HOTEL ELEVATOR, EXCHANGE INSULTS, TURN TO LEAVE, RUN INTO GROUPIE LOOKING FOR AUTOGRAPH 00:09:32 - BING & FRIEND IN FRONT OF ELEVATOR, DOORS OPEN, & SECOND COUPLE BING INSULTED GET OFF ELEVATOR, BING TURNS & RUNS STEPPING ON MAN'S BOXES 00:09:52 - HOTEL MAID ANSWERS ROOM DOOR TO TWO MEN POSING AS TOUR GUIDES, LOOK AROUND ROOM FOR WOMAN, MAID SLAMS DOOR ON THEM 00:10:23 - MEN POSING AS TOUR GUIDES ENTER WRONG WOMAN'S HOTEL ROOM, HUSBAND PUNCHES MAN IN THE NOSE CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS INTO ROOM ACROSS HALLWAY, WHICH ENDS UP BEING THE RIGHT WOMAN'S ROOM. THE NOISE BRINGS HOTEL GUESTS OUT TO HALLWAY 00:12:09 - BING / STRANGER FLIRTS WITH WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS 00:12:44 - ANGRY MAN ACROSS THE HALL COMES OUT & SHOOTS GUN INTO FLOOR, GUESTS SCATTER INTO THEIR ROOMS TWO MEN WALK AWAY, MAN SHOOTS GUN, THEY RUN 00:12:57 - MAN / BING BARGES INTO HOTEL ROOM OF GIRL HE LIKES, TRIES TO TELL THEM HE'S BING CROSBY, THEY DON'T BELIEVE HIM, DEE-JAY DJ COMES ON RADIO, ANNOUNCES BING CROSBY. CU RADIO. BING GESTURES ALONG WITH SONG, NOT SINGING, MOTHER & DAUGHTER THINK HE'S CRAZY. BING CROSBY'S SONG "OUT OF NOWHERE" PLAYS ON THE RADIO 00:15:37 - ANOTHER CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY, WOMAN FOLLOWS BING'S FRIEND INTO HOTEL ROOM THINKING HE'S BING. MAN GETS CAUGHT IN HOTEL ROOM WITH ANOTHER WOMAN BY HIS WIFE. MAN HIDING WOMAN IN HOTEL CLOSET FROM HIS WIFE. ODD COUPLE, SMALL SHORT HUSBAND, HUGE TALL WIFE. 00:16:34 - MAN MAKING A JOKE ABOUT HIS FRIEND HIDING A WOMAN IN HIS HOTEL ROOM ACTUALLY FINDS WOMAN HIDING IN THE CLOSET 00:17:05 - MAN TURNS ON RADIO IN HOTEL ROOM, WOMAN GOES TO HANG HER COAT IN THE CLOSET WHERE WOMAN IS HIDING, HUSBAND DETOURS HER INTO BEDROOM 00:17:32 - BING CROSBY - AT YOUR COMMAND. FRIEND SNEAKS WOMAN OUT OF THE CLOSET WHILE BING SINGS, HE TURNS & SINGS TO HER, SHE NOW REALIZES HE REALLY IS BING 00:19:22 - WOMAN PICKS UP HOTEL ROOM PHONE, SAYS "GIVE ME ROOM 344 PLEASE" 00:19:27 - MAN TAKING BUBBLE BATH IN HOTEL ROOM, HIS VALET HANDS HIM TELEPHONE WHILE HE'S IN BATH, FIANCE CALLS OFF THE ENGAGEMENT 00:20:05 - BING & WOMAN SNEAK OUT OF ROOM BY THE FIRE ESCAPE WOMAN COMES BACK IN & GRABS HER FUR FROM CLOSET. BIG WOMAN SAYS "INSECT" & SLAPS HER HUSBAND ACROSS THE FACE, KNOCKS HIM TO THE FLOOR. SPOUSAL ABUSE. HE CRAWLS UNDER COUCH 00:20:27 - PEOPLE ESCAPING FROM HOTEL ON FIRE ESCAPE, SNEAKING AWAY 00:20:29 - WOMAN'S MOTHER & HER EX-FIANCE STILL COVERED IN BUBBLE BATH RUN INTO HOTEL ROOM, EX-FIANCE THINKS MAN HIDING UNDER COUCH IS BING, BEATS HIS REAR END WITH A STICK, HITTING MAN ACROSS REAR END 00:20:35 - MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN RACES OUT FROM HIDING PLACE, PULLS OVER BING'S CAR, POLICEMAN DOESN'T BELIEVE BING IS BING, TELLS HIM TO "SOUND AN A" BING BREAKS OUT IN SONG, " I SURRENDER". POLICEMAN LETS GO FREE 00:21:22 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1931
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: V-8182