Approved | 1h 27min | Comedy | 17 October 1950
Director: Charles Barton
Stars: Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante, Piper Laurie, Joyce Holden, William Conrad.
Harold Belfer ... choreographer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042733/
Watched online; fuzzy print on small screen.
In the Tap! Appendix for Donald O'Connor.
I can't be sure that I checked for this during '50 because it's not tagged as a Musical (and I won't add it), but saw it on Jerry Lewis' filmo, and found it today. (Didn't see JL, but wasn't watching for him.)
4 songs in the Soundtrack, 3 with dancing by DO. The dancing is pleasant, but no thrills. Although Piper Laurie does her few moves well, the steps weren't much.
I'm surprised they still have milkmen in '50; I wonder how long that service endured.
As a comedy, this is shrug-worthy; plenty of physical comedy, but not interesting. And the plot with the stolen necklace is grim; murder of a dowager for profit ain't funny. Or maybe I just wasn't watching closely enough.
I can't be sure that I checked for this during '50 because it's not tagged as a Musical (and I won't add it), but saw it on Jerry Lewis' filmo, and found it today. (Didn't see JL, but wasn't watching for him.)
4 songs in the Soundtrack, 3 with dancing by DO. The dancing is pleasant, but no thrills. Although Piper Laurie does her few moves well, the steps weren't much.
I'm surprised they still have milkmen in '50; I wonder how long that service endured.
As a comedy, this is shrug-worthy; plenty of physical comedy, but not interesting. And the plot with the stolen necklace is grim; murder of a dowager for profit ain't funny. Or maybe I just wasn't watching closely enough.
Universal, dir. Barton; 6-
