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Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)

Director: Edward Dmytryk

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From Time Out Film Guide

'Zig me baby with a gentle zag.' This amiable relic from the Swing era has the usual pompous authority figures trying and failing to stop the music - though the absence, despite the college setting, of any character much under 30 marks the picture off from later rock/pop equivalents. Dmytryk, clearly bursting to get off the B-picture treadmill, makes rapid work of the idiotic plot and concentrates on the numbers, which he stages as inventively as a meagre budget and schedule allow. European exile Planer (cameraman for Murnau, Ophuls) gives it a classier look than the material merits.

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Cast & crew

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Producer: Jack Fier

Cast: Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Gordon Oliver, Don Beddoe, Kathleen Howard full cast

Genre(s): Musicals

Duration: 69 mins


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