1h 10min | Musical | 25 July 1947
Director: Arthur H. Leonard (as Arthur Leonard)
Stars: Billy Daniels, Sheila Guyse, Tondaleyo.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039812/
Watched online; mediocre copy.
Race film, complete with scratchy audio during silence, and there's no score during non-performance time.
Previously rated 6; didn't attract or hold my attention today; watched on small screen (laptop). There was 1 dance duo, male and female, undulating to prepare for his eating fire. Dull.
I could not have generated the synopsis above. I remember a woman boss wanting bandleader X and someone else wanting bandleader Y, and she started romancing X although she was already engaged. And a bunch of musical performances.
Freddie Bartholomew did grab my attention, because he was reciting Scottish story/jokes, and I wondered what a Scottish accent was doing in a race film. He's a young adult here (b. 1924); another child star with no real career once he matures. He has 1 more film credit in '51 and 3 TV credits between this and that. But his mini-bios say he worked in TV as producer/director. At least in the prior film from this company, the white guest made some sense: Gene Krupa sat in with the band at the rent party. Freddie here is very random, but he tells the jokes pretty well.
Since I gave it a 6 before, I'll just append a minus; I really wasn't paying good enough attention to downgrade the rating.
Herald Pictures, dir. Leonard; 6-
