Genres

Comedy , Music

Duration

16 min

Director

Archie Gottler

Rating

2.5

Release Date

November 24, 1933

Umpa

Original title: Umpa

Synopsis

Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses. Somewhere between utterly silly and consummately brilliant with its fully rhyming dialogue, "Umpa" is the catchword for that enduring urge that makes people do ludicrous things with absolute determination.