Monday, December 18, 2017

Hawaii Calls (1938), 6

After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover... 
(91 min) Released 1938-03-11
Director: Edward F. Cline
Stars: Ward Bond, Bobby Breen, Ned Sparks, Irvin S. Cobb.
Aggie Auld ... dance director

Genres: Drama | Musical
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030217/
Watched online, fuzzy print, sub-par audio, only 63 min, as are all YouTube copies!

If you're keeping score, on the last Bobby Breen film, I swore I wouldn't watch any more of his films, nor fuzzy indies in general, but I had previously rated this a 6. And I concur for this viewing. We get pleasant songs aplenty. Not enough specificity in the Soundtracks list to determine what instrumental the Orchestra played, but maybe by process of elimination, using lyrics of the other numbers... but I'm not going to expend the effort.

Didn't like the plot; orphan in jeopardy doesn't appeal to me. But Breen has a good voice. And we get some Hawaiian dancing (hence the DD.)

Bobby Breen Productions, Sol Lesser Productions, distr. RKO, dir. Cline; 6