One of the previous reviews calls this a murder mystery. If only it were! There is no mystery about who kills the young chorus girl early in the picture, because we see Dan Dailey do it - granted, unintentionally - early in the picture. Since this is 1941 and an MGM picture with Frank Morgan, just shortly after he endeared himself to Americans as the Wizard of Oz, 1941 viewers knew that it was not going to end with Morgan being sentenced to death for murder.
That leaves us sitting through an 80 minute picture with no suspense, and therefore not much interest.
It would have been ten times better, and actually interesting, if
1) we had not been shown almost from the get-go who killed the girl, and 2) we had also be left in doubt about whether Morgan's character had cheated on his wife with her.
Since neither of these things are true, there's really not much to this picture.
That leaves us sitting through an 80 minute picture with no suspense, and therefore not much interest.
It would have been ten times better, and actually interesting, if
1) we had not been shown almost from the get-go who killed the girl, and 2) we had also be left in doubt about whether Morgan's character had cheated on his wife with her.
Since neither of these things are true, there's really not much to this picture.