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Colonel Heeza Liars Forbidden Fruit (1923)

Audience Score
30
Colonel Heeza Liars Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit begins with New York in the grip of a banana shortage Residents sing or scream Yes We Have No Bananas the hit novelty song of 1923 inspired by reallife banana shortagesthe film also references current events by mentioning mobster Louis Cohen arrested for murder the same year The scene shifts to animator Walter Lantz strumming the song on his guitar before a coworker presents him with a banana that transmogrifies into Colonel Heeza Liar who tells the tale of how he ended the great banana famine in 1923
StarringWalter Lantz
DirectorVernon Stallings

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:November 1st, 1923
Original Language:English
Production Companies:JR Bray Studios