Streamlined Swing

APPROPIATE

1938 / 9min.

Rating3.8

Genres

Music

Synopsis

A group of African-American waiters on a railway believe they have made a deal to secure a railroad dining car that they set up on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles as a diner. To bring in customers, they sing, their voices providing most of the musical accompaniment as well. At the diner, in front of a crowd of swells, the police deliver the bad news.

Directors

Louis Lewyn

Actors

Lester Dorr

Walter Soderling

Richard Cramer

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