WordNet
n. pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit]
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Crazy House is a 1943 comedy film starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson as Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie. Financed by an eccentric "angel" ( Percy Kilbride), the completed feature is set to premiere when angry creditors confiscate most of the film. Olsen and Johnson keep the preview going, anyway, and their venture is a success.
Crazy House is notable for its impressive cast of supporting comedians (Percy Kilbride, Cass Daley, Shemp Howard, Edgar Kennedy, Franklin Pangborn, Billy Gilbert, Richard Lane, Andrew Tombes, Chester Clute, and Hans Conried) and guest stars under contract to Universal at the time ( Allan Jones, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Robert Paige, Leo Carrillo, Johnny Mack Brown, Andy Devine).
Crazy House is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 76th Our Gang short that was released. It was the final appearance of Jackie Condon, who was with the gang since the pilot episode of Our Gang in 1922.
Crazy House may refer to:
- Crazy House (1928 film), an Our Gang short
- Crazy House (cartoon), a 1940 Andy Panda cartoon
- Crazy House (1943 film), a 1943 comedy film
- The Hang Nga guesthouse in Da Lat, Vietnam, commonly known as "the Crazy House"
- A slang term for Psychiatric hospital
Crazy House is the fourth Andy Panda cartoon produced by Walter Lantz and probably directed by Alex Lovy (as speculated by historians such as Michael Barrier) or by Lantz himself (as he claimed himself). The cartoon was released on September 23, 1940.
Usage examples of "crazy house".
You'd better straighten up, Henry, or they're going to come after you with the butterfly net and lock you up in the crazy house.
He struggled into a blue woolen windbreaker, because the air streaming in from the ventilation duct felt cold and damp, and he went zigzagging across a deck that was wobbling like a room in an amusement park Crazy House.
Whoever had originally designed the crazy house must have had a mania for doors and corridors, unless (and more likely) these were added over the decades as the complex was extended.