For fans of Frances Langford (like me), this little movie is a real treat. Admittedly, you've also got to put up with Eddie Quillan's way overdone performance as a hexed trumpet player, plus Frank Jenks's hammy, over-expressive rendition as chief offsider for the super-smooth lead gangster, a bad egg played by Lyle Talbot. Talbot is good, but the rest of the cast, featuring Guy Kibbee, Charles Butterworth and Fifi d'Orsay – plus Frances L. of course – is great. Even Christy Cabanne's direction is smart enough and winning enough to cover most of the holes in the paper-thin script. Six songs by Michael Breen and Sam Neumann are on the track, four of them enjoyably rendered by Langford, and one by Fifi d'Orsay. Grapevine's very good quality DVD also includes "The Brementown Musicians" (1935), an excellent cartoon from Ub Iwerks which is presented in its original Cinecolor, which I'm happy to say has not faded and still looks great.
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