Open the Door Richard
A musically themed film cutting back and forth between Dusty Fletcher at home in bed and a jazz band providing the film's swing music.
From the archive
In "Open the Door Richard," Dusty Fletcher plays a drunk in top hat and large shoes who performs for a dinner audience. Another man plays a barman or restaurateur who has kicked him out on the street. Dusty shares his woes and tries to get home, knocking on the arch of the stage as though it were a door, peppering his stand-up (or lay-down) routine with shouts of "open the door, Richard!"
Why this is free to watch
Open the Door Richard (1947) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- William Forest Crouch
- Starring
- Dusty Fletcher, Fred Winn
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