[Dixielandjazz] JAZZ IN NAZI GERMANY

[Harry Callaghan]

Much thanx, Joe.............I also found that it is available for loan from
Netflix but NOT available for instant viewing on  PC

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:27 PM, <JazzMnJoe at aol.com> wrote:

>  SWING KIDS IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM <http://amazon.com/> FOR LESS THAN
> A DOLLAR IN VHS OR JUST ABOUT $1.31..ON
> DVD...........................JAZZMANJOE
>
>  In a message dated 1/12/2011 1:02:19 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com writes:
>
> Robert Calder's recent post here, still under the heading of "Hawkins and
> Dixieland"  brought to mind a 1993 movie entitled "Swing Kids".
>
> While the movie's title might intitally conjure a vision of an audience at
> one of Steve Barbone's swing dances, it was instead a story of a bunch of
> young jazz enthusiasts during the Nazi regime.
>
> It starred among others Robert Sean Leonard (the oncologist on "House")
> Christian Bale,(the latest Batman), Noah Wyle (from "ER") and the lovely
> Barbara Hershey.
>
> It was fictitious but I believe it was a reasonable depiction of how things
> were at the time.  It had one of the cast members, a record collector,
> explaining how any Benny Goodman records imported into the country would
> only have Gene Krupa on the label as Goodman sounded Jewish and they would
> be destroyed.
>
> They would gather together for dances with a swing band but have a lookout
> for the Gestapo.  When they were about to be discovered, the dance hall
> would revert to them waltzing to an oompah pah band.
>
> Well worth the watch if you can find it on video.
>
> Tides
> HC
> --
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