Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.
Spec O'Donnell
- Lafayette
- (as Speck O'Donnell)
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- TriviaThis film uses the name "Santa Teresa" for a thinly veiled "fictional" version of Santa Barbara, where the hotel exteriors were shot. Beginning in the 1980's, writer Sue Grafton would set her popular Kinsey Millhone mystery novels in "Santa Teresa," also a thinly veiled fictional version of Santa Barbara.
- GoofsIn Miss Gaye's car, Bowster is clasping his toga closed at his breast with his left hand in practically all of the close-ups. In long shots, his hand's in his lap.
- Quotes
George Hymen: All I want to know is why are we riding in a chariot with four white horses when there are hundreds of taxi cabs?
Calliope 'Gracie' Dove: Well, four horses couldn't get into a taxi cab. Even if they had money!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015)
- SoundtracksThe Sweetheart Waltz
Lyrics by Ralph Freed
Music by Burton Lane
Opening number sung by Leif Erickson, Marsha Hunt and California Collegians
Reprised later by California Collegians
Featured review
Kitchen Sink Musical
Paramount seems to toss every minor comedy actor they had -- some would become major stars, but not from this -- into this poorly written potboiler of a college musical in which no time is spent on campus and the whole thing ends with a minstrel show in a eugenics lab.
There's little cohesion in this work and while you may enjoy individual comedy bits -- Burns & Allen driving a chariot while doing their act certainly amused me -- it looks like the sort of thing that some one started working on the script and by the time director Frank Tuttle got it shot, all the cast were making it up as they went along. The music is good and a couple of the numbers are well presented -- I'm impressed by the eccentric choreography that Leroy Prinz did for Johnny Downs and Eleanore Whitney in "Just a Rhyme for Love"; however, even though everyone does his job competently, in front of and behind the camera, the crazy-quilt construction of this film renders this only intermittently amusing.
There's little cohesion in this work and while you may enjoy individual comedy bits -- Burns & Allen driving a chariot while doing their act certainly amused me -- it looks like the sort of thing that some one started working on the script and by the time director Frank Tuttle got it shot, all the cast were making it up as they went along. The music is good and a couple of the numbers are well presented -- I'm impressed by the eccentric choreography that Leroy Prinz did for Johnny Downs and Eleanore Whitney in "Just a Rhyme for Love"; however, even though everyone does his job competently, in front of and behind the camera, the crazy-quilt construction of this film renders this only intermittently amusing.
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- boblipton
- Jun 28, 2014
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- Oss greker emellan
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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