The Jitters (1938)
7/10
Very Funny Finale
12 December 2005
One of rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol's better short comedies;it starts off in over-familiar vein,with Leon arguing with wife,getting drunk on the town,but has a superbly funny final sequence in a dance studio,with loads of girl students mistaking an inebriated Errol for a teacher,and following his every move.The scene is very well directed and choreographed,and compares favourably(but not quite)with the mirror sequence in the Marx Brothers' DUCK SOUP(1933),here done the opposite way! The film's title refers to a popular dance at the time:'The Jitters' most certainly led to another popular dance,'The Jitterbug'.

One of the support cast is comic actor Jack Rice,better known for playing Edgar Kennedy's brother-in-law in his series of two-reeler's.He plays a nightclub waiter here,getting drunk with Leon before his unintended dance tuition goes astray!
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