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Yes Sir, Mr. Bones: Directed by Ron Ormond. With Kathleen Freeman, Cotton Watts, Ches Davis, F.E. Miller. A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it was like back in the days of the minstrel shows.
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- Comedy, Music
- Ron Ormond
- 1951-07-13
Subscribed. 553. 25K views 2 years ago ÉTATS-UNIS. A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it...
- 54 min
- 25K
- Cult Cinema Classics
Yes Sir, Mr Bones is a 1951 American film written and directed by Ron Ormond and starring Gary Jackson. [1] [2] The movie includes white actors wearing blackface makeup, mimicking the format of the minstrel show form of American theater. Plot. A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel show acts.
Synopsis. At the Show Boat Rest Inn, Jim, an African-American porter, polishes a window pane and looks through the glass to a gathering of mostly white men, two of whom dance to the accompaniment of a black piano player. Impressed by the sight, Jim tells Billie Crane, an inquisitive, young white boy who comes by, that the men inside are old ...
- Ron Ormond, F. O. Collings
- Cotton Watts
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Summaries. A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it was like back in the days of the minstrel shows. A young boy wanders into an old-folks' home and expresses interest in the old-time minstrel shows.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. While linked with Lippert Studios in the 1950s, producer-director Ron Ormond seemed determined to revive every form of old-fashioned American entertainment, from vaudeville to country hoedown. In Yes Sir, Mr. Bones, Ormond re-creates a vintage minstrel show.
