Friday, June 15, 2018

Knock on Wood (1954), 6 Color {nm}

Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has to see another love affair fail. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his doll Clarence becomes mean and ...
1h 43min | Comedy | 6 April 1954 | Color
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Stars: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher.
Michael Kidd ... stager: dances and musical numbers
Jack Baker ... assistant dance director (uncredited)

bootleg with breaks where commercials were, mildly blurry.

4 songs in the Soundtracks. The "danced by" is just social dancing on All About You. But DK is actually tapping during another number (Knock on Wood?).

Just a spy/psychoanalysis comedy. 

No one in the cast to match or counterbalance DK. 

The ballet number is a rip-off of DK's opera intrusion in Wonder Man (1945).

Dena Prod., distr. Paramount, dir. Frank & Panama; 6