Thank goodness TCM is around to show these little wonders. Movies like this hardly ever see the light of day, and when you DO see them, they can really drop your jaw. With Ding Dong Williams it's like someone took a blunderbuss, stuffed it with 10 rejected scripts, and fired it at a caged screenwriter. The result is mesmerizing.
Most movies pick a theme and go with it, no matter how bad that theme might be. This is more like movie-making improv. The female lead seems to be trying to channel Judy Garland, and the musical numbers appear to be fighting with one another for screen time. With lines like, "Zing and Zang are here to write down what Ding Dong plays", the editor apparently snuck out of the production early on. Zany does not describe the "comedy" correctly. Stupifying is a better word.
This movie is not particularly offensive, but I can't imagine why anyone made it. But again, even the most obscure movie is represented on IMDb, although this is the first one I've seen here that has no foreign voters at all.
Much like a car wreck, Ding Dong Williams is a mess, but it's hard to look away from the carnage.
Most movies pick a theme and go with it, no matter how bad that theme might be. This is more like movie-making improv. The female lead seems to be trying to channel Judy Garland, and the musical numbers appear to be fighting with one another for screen time. With lines like, "Zing and Zang are here to write down what Ding Dong plays", the editor apparently snuck out of the production early on. Zany does not describe the "comedy" correctly. Stupifying is a better word.
This movie is not particularly offensive, but I can't imagine why anyone made it. But again, even the most obscure movie is represented on IMDb, although this is the first one I've seen here that has no foreign voters at all.
Much like a car wreck, Ding Dong Williams is a mess, but it's hard to look away from the carnage.