Check and Double Check with Amos 'n' Andy (1930)
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Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters played by two white men, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. Donning blackface, Gosden and Correll are seen as well as heard as A&A, partners in the Harlem-based Fresh… More Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters played by two white men, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. Donning blackface, Gosden and Correll are seen as well as heard as A&A, partners in the Harlem-based Fresh Air Taxicab Company. Our heroes spend most of their time helping the white romantic leads (Sue Carol and Charles Morton) try to locate a missing deed to some property owned by Morton's family. Eventually, Amos 'N' Andy unwittingly end up in a haunted house. Virtually the only genuine African Americans in the film are the members of Duke Ellington's Cotton Club orchestra, whose appearance at a high society ball is the device that brings A&A into the plot. Though no other Amos 'N' Andy films would follow, a popular TV series later aired in the 1950s with black actors cast in the leads. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Melville W. Brown
- Genres
- Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 3, 1930 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The film works as a curio to see how the blacks were perceived back then by Hollywood.
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Cast
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Freeman Gosden
as Amos
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Charles J. Correll
as Andy
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Sue Carol
as Jean Blair
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Charles Morton
as Richard Williams
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Ralf Harolde
as Ralph Crawford
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Edward Martindel
as John Blair
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Russell Powell
as Kingfish
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Patrick Conway
as Cop
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Robert E. Homans
as Nathan
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Rita La Roy
as Elinor Crawford
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Irene Rich
as Mrs. Blair
- Duke Ellington
- Bing Crosby
- Freeman F. Gosden
- Russ Powell
