Swing You Sinners!
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About Swing You Sinners!
At night Bimbo tries to steal a chicken and grabs a policeman by mistake. The chicken and the cop follow him. He ducks into a cemetery. Ghosts list the chickens he stole, the craps he shot, and the girls he chased, and they will not take his promise to reform. He runs into a barn. The monsters sing about his end, and a huge skull swallows him.
Cast & crew
More about Swing You Sinners!
Dave Fleischer directed. Max Fleischer produced it as a Talkartoon. Paramount Publix released it on September 24, 1930. Wikipedia gives 8 minutes. Billy Murray voices Bimbo. Animators include Willard Bowsky, Ted Sears, Grim Natwick, Shamus Culhane, Seymour Kneitel, Al Eugster, George Cannata, and William Henning.
Themes
Making
Fleischer sends Bimbo from a street theft into a cemetery that will not let him out.
Music
Billy Murray sings Bimbo. The ghosts sing the list of sins.
Preservation
Public domain in the United States since January 1, 2026.
Notes
- The ghosts' charges are theft, gambling, and lust, sung as chickens, craps, and girls.
- It is a Talkartoon, not a later Betty Boop short, though Bimbo is the star.
- Bowsky and Sears are the animators named first in the background note.
- A 1930 release entered the U.S. public domain on January 1, 2026.
Scenes
- Bimbo grabs the policeman instead of the chicken.
- A skull swallows him in the barn.
