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Smash Your Baggage is a 1932 Vitaphone pre-Code short comedy film released by Warner Brothers on October 29, 1932. Directed by Roy Mack, the film features African American performers Carrie Marrier, Lew Payton, Mabel Scott and the Smalls Paradise Entertainers.

Smash Your Baggage
Directed byRoy Mack
Written byA. Dorian Otvos
StarringCarrie Marrier
Lew Payton
Mabel Scott
Elmer Snowden Orchestra
Smalls Paradise Entertainers
CinematographyEdwin B. DuPar
Music byElmer Snowden
Elmer Snowden Orchestra
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
  • October 29, 1932 (1932-10-29)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Written by famed Hungarian writer A. Dorian Otvos, the film features the music of Elmer Snowden and his Elmer Snowden Orchestra who perform the "Bugle Call Rag." The "Bugle Call Rag" is included on the album "That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1950)", Vol. 2 (1927-1934).

Plot

A group of African-American redcaps at a busy train station perform musical numbers to raise money for a sick member of their group.