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Hollywood Hotel is a 1937 American romantic musical comedy film, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert, Ted Healy, Glenda Farrell and Johnnie Davis, featuring Alan Mowbray and Alan Todd, and with Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell and Edgar Kennedy.

The film was based on the popular Hollywood Hotel radio show created by gossip columnist Louella Parsons, where Hollywood stars recreated scenes from their latest movies. It was broadcast weekly from the hotel of that name,^[1] The film's recreation of the program features Louella Parsons, Frances Langford, Raymond Paige and His Orchestra, Jerry Cooper, the announcer Ken Niles, Duane Thompson and Benny Goodman and His Orchestra.

Hollywood Hotel, the film, is now best remembered for the featured song and opening number 'Hooray for Hollywood' by Johnny Mercer and Richard A. Whiting, sung in the film by Davis and Langford, accompanied by Goodman and his orchestra. The song has become a standard part of the soundtrack to movie award ceremonies, including the Academy Awards. Mercer's lyrics contain numerous references, often satirical, to the movie industry and the path to film stardom.

Plot[edit]

Saxophone player and singer Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell), is on his way to Hollywood, having been signed to a ten-week contract by All Star Pictures. At the airport, his former employer, Benny Goodman, and his band give him a big sendoff, performing 'Hooray for Hollywood'.

In Hollywood, temperamental star Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) becomes furious when she learns that another actress has landed a part she desperately wanted. As a result, she refuses to attend the premiere of her latest movie. Publicist Bernie Walton (Allyn Joslyn) convinces studio boss B. L. Faulkin (Grant Mitchell) to substitute a double. Bernie chooses Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane), who has already worked as a stand-in for Mona. For her escort, Bernie chooses an unsuspecting (and starstruck) Ronnie.

The charade works. Everyone, from Ronnie to Louella Parsons to the radio host at the premiere (Ronald Reagan) is fooled. Things take an unexpected turn when Ronnie and Virginia begin to fall in love, wading in a fountain pond and singing 'I'm Like a Fish Out of Water'.

The next day, Bernie takes Ronnie to lunch at the restaurant where Virginia is working as a waitress, to break the news of his date's real identity. Ronnie and Virginia begin dating.

When Mona reads in the newspaper that 'she' was at the premiere with Ronnie, she forces Faulkin to buy the young man out of his contract. Photographer Fuzzy Boyle (Ted Healy) appoints himself Ronnie's agent, and they make the rounds, trying to get his acting career started, without success. The two end up employed at a drive-in. When Ronnie sings during work, director Walter Kelton (William Davidson) is impressed and offers him a job. Ronnie is disappointed to learn, however, that he will not be acting, but only dubbing the singing for Mona's longtime screen partner, Alex Dupre (Alan Mowbray).

Dupre's 'singing' impresses the audience at the preview. When Louella Parsons invites him to perform on her radio program, he accepts without thinking. Desperate, All Star Pictures pays Ronnie an exorbitant fee to sing for the actor. However, Ronnie has his own ideas. Virginia (posing as Mona) picks up Dupre in a limousine driven by Fuzzy. The pair drive him out into the countryside so he misses the program. Ronnie substitutes for Dupre and is a hit, so Faulkin decides to re-sign him, at a larger salary.

Cast[edit]

Cast notes:

• Louella Parsons, a noted gossip columnist of the time, created the concept of Hollywood Hotel for the radio, and appears in the film as herself.^[2] It was her screen debut.^[1]
• The Benny Goodman Orchestra at this time included drummer Gene Krupa, Harry James on trumpet, pianist Teddy Wilson and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton.^[3] The strong reaction of the band's fans to its appearance in the film helped to convince Goodman to do the Carnegie Hall concert that had been suggested by his publicist, Wynn Nathanson. Goodman had been concerned that it would be perceived as a publicity stunt.^[3]
• Ted Healy is perhaps best known for creating the vaudeville act which later evolved into The Three Stooges. Hollywood Hotel was released in January 1938, less than a month after Healy's death, the cause of which is still a matter of debate today.^[4][5][6][7]
• Lola Lane, who plays Mona Marshall, and Rosemary Lane, who plays Marshall's stand-in, were sisters. Another sister, Priscilla Lane, was an even more successful film actress.^[3]
• Ronald Reagan makes his second film appearance in Hollywood Hotel, uncredited, as the radio host at a film premiere.
• Both Carole Landis, as a hatcheck girl, and Susan Hayward, as a starlet, appear in the film uncredited. It was Hayward's film debut.^[3]

Production[edit]

Warner Bros. originally wanted Bette Davis to play both Mona Marshall and her stand-in, but Davis managed to convince them that it was not a good idea.^[3]

The studio was sued by both the Campbell Soup Company, who sponsored the Hollywood Hotel radio program, and by the hotel itself, for using the name without authorization.^[1] The Hollywood Hotel in its heyday had attracted the royalty of Hollywood, such as Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, but it had fallen in prominence by the time this film was made. Some exteriors of the hotel appear in the films.^[1] The hotel no longer exists, in its place is the Dolby Theatre, from where the Academy Awards presentations have originated since 2001.^[3]

Reception[edit]

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

• 2004: AFI's 100 Years..100 Songs:
  • 'Hooray for Hollywood' – Nominated^[8]
• 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Nominated^[9]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Notes

1. ^ ^abcde'Notes' on TCM.com
2. ^Helfer, Andrew (author); Buccatello, Steve (artist); and Station, Joe (artist). Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography. Hill and Wang. p.22.
3. ^ ^abcdefCarr, Jay. 'Hollywood Hotel (1938)' (article) on TCM.com
4. ^'Police Drop Healy Probe'. Prescott Evening Courier. December 22, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
5. ^'Foul Play Ruled Out In Ted Healy's Death'. The Pittsburgh Press. December 22, 1937. p. 2. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
6. ^Fleming, EJ: The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine. New York: McFarland (2004). pp. 174-7. ISBN978-0-7864-2027-8.
7. ^Braund, Simon (June 2010). 'The Tragic And Twisted Tale Of The Three Stooges'. Empire Magazine. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
8. ^'AFI's 100 Years..100 Songs Nominees'(PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-13.
9. ^'AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals Nominees'(PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-13.

External links[edit]

• Hollywood Hotel on IMDb
• Hollywood Hotel at the TCM Movie Database

Hostel: Part III is a 2011 American slasher film directed by Scott Spiegel and the third and final installment of the Hostel trilogy. It was written by Michael D. Weiss. This is the only film in the series to be neither written nor directed by Eli Roth and is also the only not to have a theatrical release. The film also relocates the Elite Hunting Club from Slovakia to Las Vegas.

The plot centres on four men attending a bachelor party in Las Vegas. While there, they are enticed by two prostitutes to join them at a private party way off the Strip. Once there, they are horrified to find themselves the subjects of a perverse game of torture, where members of the Elite Hunting Club are hosting the most sadistic show in town. It was released direct-to-DVD on December 27, 2011.^[1]

Plot[edit]

A young man named Travis goes into a hotel room where a Ukrainian couple, Victor and Anka, are currently staying. Anka and Victor fall unconscious after being drugged by the beer Travis gives them, and it is revealed that Travis is a member of the Elite Hunting Club. Victor later wakes up in a cell in an abandoned building, and watches as two guards drag Anka out of her cell.

Scott leaves his fiancée Amy to go to Las Vegas with his friend Carter for Scott's bachelor party. There, they meet up with their other friends, Mike and Justin. The four go to a nightclub, where they meet Kendra and Nikki, two escorts Carter secretly paid to have sex with Scott. Kendra and Nikki tell the four men about a 'freaky' party they could go to on the other end of town, and the four men take a cab to an abandoned building. At the party, Kendra makes a move on Scott, but he declines and tells her about how he previously cheated on Amy and almost lost her, and does not want it to happen again. Scott wakes up the next morning in his hotel room with Carter and Justin. The three wonder where Mike is, as he is not answering his phone.

Mike awakens in a cell and starts panicking. Two guards strap him to a chair in an empty room, with one wall made of glass, and Mike is on display to be gambled upon by wealthy clients. A man enters the room; Mike pleads with him, but the man peels Mike's face off. Worried about Mike, Scott, Carter, and Justin travel to Nikki's trailer, but cannot find her. Kendra arrives and reveals that Nikki is missing as well. Meanwhile, Nikki is brought into the same room as Mike and strapped to a table. Another man enters the room and releases a jar full of cockroaches onto Nikki, which crawl into her mouth and suffocate her.

Scott, Carter, Justin, and Kendra get a text from Mike's phone, sent by Travis, to meet him and Nikki in a hotel room. When they get there, everyone is kidnapped by Travis and wake up in individual cells along with Victor. The two guards take Justin away, and Carter calls the guard, and informs them that he is also a client. After he shows his Elite Hunting Club tattoo, the guards let him go.

Justin is strapped into a chair and Carter, Flemming, and Travis watch as a woman shoots him with multiple crossbows. The main event starts and Scott is strapped into a chair. He asks Carter why he is doing this, and Carter reveals he wants Amy for himself, as they were in a relationship before she ended up with Scott. Carter says he was disappointed that Amy stayed with Scott after Carter told her about Scott's infidelity. He says that once Scott dies, he will comfort Amy and she will want to be with him.

Flemming orders Scott to be let go from the chair, and Scott and Carter fight. Scott ends up stabbing Carter, cuts off Carter's tattoo, and then escapes by using Carter's tattoo on the scanners. Victor kills one of the guards and frees himself, but is killed by another guard. Scott calls the cops and frees Kendra, who is shot dead by Travis. Flemming orders all of the prisoners to be killed. Scott and Travis fight, and Scott kills Travis. Flemming sets the building to explode and attempts to drive away, but Carter kills him and takes his car. Carter sees Scott and locks the front gate before Scott can get to him. He then quickly drives off while the building explodes, with Scott still inside the gates.

Sometime later, Carter is comforting Amy in her house. After inviting him to stay the night, Amy reveals that Scott is still alive and pins Carter's hand to a chair with a corkscrew. A burned Scott appears and the pair strap him to a chair in her garage, where Scott kills him with a lightweight gas powered tiller.

Cast[edit]

• Brian Hallisay as Scott
• Kip Pardue as Carter
• John Hensley as Justin
• Sarah Habel as Kendra
• Skyler Stone as Mike
• Zulay Henao as Nikki
• Thomas Kretschmann as Flemming
• Chris Coy as Travis
• Nickola Shreli as Victor
• Evelina Oboza as Anka
• Kelly Thiebaud as Amy
• Derrick Carr as Mossberg
• Frank Alvarez as Mesa
• Tim Holmes as Beardo
• Barry Livingston as Doctor
• Alicia Vela-Bailey as Japanese Cyberpunk Woman

Production[edit]

In June 2008, it was announced that Scott Spiegel, one of the executive producers of Hostel and Hostel: Part II, was in talks to direct a third film in the series. In July 2009, Eli Roth confirmed that he would not be directing Hostel: Part III.^[2]Total Film later reported that Eli Roth would be involved, albeit as producer only, and that the film will abandon the European locations of the previous films in favor of an American setting, by the release of the film however Roth was not credited. A trailer for the film was released in October 2011 confirming the film's Las Vegas setting.

Internal casino shots were filmed at the Greektown Casino in Detroit, Michigan (as evident by the Greektown logo shown on the TV monitors during the casino sequences).^[3]

Release[edit]

There were meant to be many viral marketing tools attached to the film including a collection of QR codes that would, if scanned, give exclusive content. One can be seen at 1:09:26 in the film. Due to the film's negative reception from test audiences however, the marketing campaign was dropped. Scanning the code now results in the phrase 'top left 8' being displayed.^[3]

Hostel: Part III was released on DVD and Video on demand on December 27, 2011 in the United States, and on January 18, 2012 in Europe.^[1][4] It carries a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on six reviews.^[5]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abWhitman, Howard. 'DVD Review: Hostel: Part III'. Technologytell. www.technologytell.com.
2. ^'Eli Roth Not Involved with Hostel III'. Shock Till You Drop.
3. ^ ^abHostel: Part III Trivia
4. ^'UHM - Upcoming Horror Movies - Hostel: Part III - Now On DVD!'.
5. ^https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hostel_part_iii_2011/

External links[edit]

• Hostel: Part III on IMDb
• Hostel: Part III at Rotten Tomatoes