This all-black, all-singing, all-dancing (well, sort of) 1943 Musical just barely managed to scrape by on the skin of its teeth with an average rating of 5 stars from me.
This was clearly an "all-black" motion picture made by "all-whites" who obviously figured that what was good enough for whites, was also good enough for blacks, as well. And with that the talents of the performers in this picture were seriously undermined.
You could easily tell that the actors/singers like Lena Horne were being squeezed into really stupid situations and forced to perform bloody awful covers of songs that clearly showed some very poor judgement on the part of the director.
This was clearly an "all-black" motion picture made by "all-whites" who obviously figured that what was good enough for whites, was also good enough for blacks, as well. And with that the talents of the performers in this picture were seriously undermined.
You could easily tell that the actors/singers like Lena Horne were being squeezed into really stupid situations and forced to perform bloody awful covers of songs that clearly showed some very poor judgement on the part of the director.