Ring! Ring! Ring!
2013 · 11m · Music · Comedy
A throwback musical comedy set in 1943, where clueless radio stars, The Apple Sisters botch a chance of a lifetime by forgetting their movie pitch to the biggest, most indecisive, bean-munching Hollywoodland producer of all times, Mr. Mountabrother.
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