Underplayed Gems

Look-Out Sister (1947)

Look-Out Sister poster
Directed by
Bud Pollard
Genre
music, western
Country
United States of America
Runtime
1h 03m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A burnt out musician checks into a sanitorium and dreams of going to a dude ranch out west. The movie is a satirical musical Western with many songs performed by Louis Jordan.

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What happens

Look-Out Sister is a 1948 film featuring Louis Jordan, directed by Bud Pollard for Astor Pictures. It has been described as a satirical, Western-themed musical and "horse opera". John E. Gordon wrote the story. Jordan performs numerous songs in the film. The plot features Louis Jordan as a burnt out musician who heads to a sanitorium to recover and the dreams of going out west to a dude ranch. A poster for the film advertises it as including 11 great song hits and features the tagline "when he's not singin' he's shootin, when he's not shootin" he's lovin'. Louise Franklin plays a featured role in the film. Excerpts from this film and his others, Beware (1946) and Reet, Petite and Gone (1947), as well as soundies were released as Louis Jordan: films and soundies The Jazz Society of Chicago and Chicago Film Society scheduled a showing of the film in 2019 calling it a "joyously ingratiating, loose-limbed musical that packs 11 songs into an hour. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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