Editing Check and Double Check (section)

{{short description|1930 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Check and Double Check
| image          = CheckDoubleCheckPoster.jpg

| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Melville W. Brown]]
| producer       = [[William LeBaron]]
| writer         = [[Bert Kalmar]]<br />[[J. Walter Ruben]]<br />[[Harry Ruby]]
| starring       = [[Charles Correll]]<br />[[Freeman Gosden]]
| music          =
| cinematography = [[William Marshall (cinematographer)|William Marshall]]
| editing        = Claude Berkeley
| studio         = [[RKO Radio Pictures]]
| distributor    = [[RKO Radio Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1930|10|25|ref1=<ref name=AFI />}}
| runtime        = 77 mins.
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $967,000<ref name="rko">Richard Jewell, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56</ref>
| gross          = $1,810,000<ref name="rko"/>
}}
[[File:Check and Double Check (1930) by Melville W. Brown.webm|thumb|''Check and Double Check'']]
'''''Check and Double Check''''' is a 1930 American [[Pre-Code Hollywood|pre-Code]] [[comedy film]] produced and released by [[RKO Radio Pictures]], based on the ''[[Amos 'n' Andy]]'' [[old-time radio|radio show]]. The title was derived from a [[catchphrase]] associated with the show. Directed by [[Melville W. Brown]], from a screenplay by [[Bert Kalmar]], [[J. Walter Ruben]], and [[Harry Ruby]], it starred [[Freeman Gosden]] and [[Charles Correll]] in [[blackface]], in the roles of Amos Jones and Andy Brown, respectively, which they had created for the radio show.  The film also featured [[Duke Ellington]] and his Cotton Club Orchestra.