I added one star due to the hilarious slap-stick comedy routine on the wheel at the end of the film. That took real imagination.
As for the rest of the film, we're viewing pure junk as Eddie Cantor portrays Eddie Pink, a jerk who takes over the running of an amusement park and is besieged by gangsters wanting to put slot machines in. Brian Donlevy, a future film villain, has an early role as the head of the gang with no less than William Frawley as one of the gang members.
Ethel Merman, the moll of the gang, belts out songs which are quite appropriate for 1936 times. She attempts to be funny in the make-believe murder scene, but it wouldn't be until 27 years later that Merman would show she was adept at comedy with Stanley Kramer's "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World" masterpiece.
The film is inane at best.
As for the rest of the film, we're viewing pure junk as Eddie Cantor portrays Eddie Pink, a jerk who takes over the running of an amusement park and is besieged by gangsters wanting to put slot machines in. Brian Donlevy, a future film villain, has an early role as the head of the gang with no less than William Frawley as one of the gang members.
Ethel Merman, the moll of the gang, belts out songs which are quite appropriate for 1936 times. She attempts to be funny in the make-believe murder scene, but it wouldn't be until 27 years later that Merman would show she was adept at comedy with Stanley Kramer's "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World" masterpiece.
The film is inane at best.