Director: DEL LORD. Screenplay: Isabel Dawn, Monte Brice. Additional dialogue: Elwood Ullman. Screen story: Richard Weil. Photography: George Meehan. Film editor: Aaron Stell. Art director: Sturges Carne. Set decorator: Bill Calvert. Music director: George Duning. Songs (all Canova): "I'm a Gal of Property", "Pepita Chiquita", "An Old Love Is a True Love" - all by Doris Fisher and Allan Roberts: "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me", lyrics by Sidney Clare, music by Con Conrad. Producer: Ted Richmond.
Copyright 26 December 1946 by Columbia Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 26 December 1946. U.K. release: June 1947. Australian release: 7 August 1947. 5,904 feet. 65½ minutes. U.K. release title: GIVE AND TAKE.
SYNOPSIS: A carnival girl inherits a ghost town.
COMMENT: In this off-beat little item, director Del Lord even exhibits a few traces of style (the long shot and angle shots of the hotel). He has a much larger budget than usual to play around with and the ghost town (presumably a standing set on Columbia's back lot) is quite impressive. The script has the usual number of weak puns ("They certainly played with spirit!"), but it has enough off-beat elements to make it passably appealing (in fact, it was later re-made as an Elvis Presley vehicle, Tickle Me).
We liked Miss Canova's crack about the invisible band. The pace is brisk and there is an agreeable chase climax. Miss Canova's vehicles were generally not much, but this is certainly one of her better ones. Nevertheless, it's certainly not worth 8.4!
Copyright 26 December 1946 by Columbia Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 26 December 1946. U.K. release: June 1947. Australian release: 7 August 1947. 5,904 feet. 65½ minutes. U.K. release title: GIVE AND TAKE.
SYNOPSIS: A carnival girl inherits a ghost town.
COMMENT: In this off-beat little item, director Del Lord even exhibits a few traces of style (the long shot and angle shots of the hotel). He has a much larger budget than usual to play around with and the ghost town (presumably a standing set on Columbia's back lot) is quite impressive. The script has the usual number of weak puns ("They certainly played with spirit!"), but it has enough off-beat elements to make it passably appealing (in fact, it was later re-made as an Elvis Presley vehicle, Tickle Me).
We liked Miss Canova's crack about the invisible band. The pace is brisk and there is an agreeable chase climax. Miss Canova's vehicles were generally not much, but this is certainly one of her better ones. Nevertheless, it's certainly not worth 8.4!