1950 American film
Catskill Honeymoon |
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Directed by | Josef Berne |
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Written by | Joel Jacobson |
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Produced by | Martin J. Cohen Hymie Jacobson Jack O. Lamont |
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Cinematography | Charles Downs |
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Edited by | Nathan Cy Braunstein Jack Kemp |
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Music by | Hymie Jacobson |
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Production company | Martin Cohen Enterprises Inc. |
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Distributed by | Martin Cohen Enterprises Inc. |
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Release date | |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
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Country | United States |
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Languages | English Yiddish |
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Catskill Honeymoon is a 1950 American musical comedy film directed by Josef Berne. It features several prominent Jewish-American entertainers.
Cast
Release
The film premiered at the Plaza Theatre in Miami in January 1950.[1] According to the National Film Preservation Foundation, the film's success "demonstrated that by 1950 the center of Jewish-American entertainment had moved from New York City to the Catskill resorts of upstate New York."[2]
Reception
Herb Rau of The Miami News wrote that the film is "loaded with entertainment", and praised both the music and the comedy.[1] The New York Times wrote that the "people in the show are all full of spirit and their energy reaches out and stimulates the audience."[3] Mildred Martin of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the film is "slapped together in hit or miss fashion", and that it "strings its undistinguished material on the merest excuse for a plot.[4]
Film critic J. Hoberman called the film "insipid" and wrote that it "dissolved Yiddish movies into canned vaudeville."[5] Film historian Richard Koszarski wrote that "the shamelessly commercial montage that opens the film is probably the most interesting piece of work in it."[6]
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