Check and Double Check

Name: Check and Double Check
Director: Melville W. Brown
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1930
Duration: 1 h 17 min
Cast: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich, Ralf Harolde

1930 Comedy 77 minutes Directed by Melville W. Brown

About Check and Double Check

Amos Jones and Andy Brown try to keep an open-air taxi business going and get pulled into a society fuss that includes driving musicians to a fancy party. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll play them in blackface, the roles they had made on the radio.

Cast & crew

More about Check and Double Check

Melville W. Brown directed this pre-Code comedy for RKO, from the Amos 'n' Andy radio show. Bert Kalmar, J. Walter Ruben, and Harry Ruby wrote the screenplay. William Marshall photographed it. The title is a catchphrase from the show. Wikidata times it at 77 minutes. Gosden is Amos. Correll is Andy.

Themes

an open-air taxi
a society party
the radio characters on film
Amos
Andy
taxi
blackface
RKO
musicians

Background

A 1930 feature built directly on the Amos 'n' Andy radio program, with the radio performers in the leads.

Look

William Marshall was the cinematographer.

Notes

Gosden and Correll perform in blackface.
The taxi is an open-air one.
The Internet Archive identifier is ClassicCinemaOnline_CheckAndDoubleCheck.
It is a pre-Code RKO release.

Scenes

Amos and Andy try to make the open-air taxi pay.
They are sent to drive musicians to a fancy party.

Influenced by

The Amos 'n' Andy radio show

Also available

Internet Archive (ClassicCinemaOnline_CheckAndDoubleCheck)
Wikimedia Commons (Check and Double Check (1930) by Melville W. Brown.webm)