Uppercutlets (1935)
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Walter Catlett plays Charles J. Porter, a mild-mannered, middle-class milquetoast of a man who thinks he can be a heavyweight champion (don't ask). His wife pays off the owner of a local gymnasium where he plans to train, to dissuade him of this notion by any means possible -- and what he walks into is a topsy-turvy, Bizzaro-like environment (anticipating Olsen & Johnson's Hellzapoppin') in which nothing from the most routine conversation on up is logical, all in hopes of gaslighting Porter. This is a peculiarly passive kind of role for Catlett, who is reacting to -- rather than generating -- the nutsiness around him, but he's so funny even in this relatively limited role, that he's worth seeing, especially in a scene in which he has a conversation with Ethel Sykes, the latter doing a very good Gracie Allen-like turn as the receptionist at the gymnasium. Completists will want to see it in any case, and it is a amusing short even if it doesn't represent Catlett at his funniest. And the ever-reliable Frank Moran is on hand as one of the denizens of the gymnasium, as always looking like the toughest pug in the picture. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Walter Catlett - Charles J. Porter
- Director(s):
- Al Boasberg
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