Pot o'Gold was a successful radio show at the time, the first to give listeners money. The success was such that no one left the radio set, at the time of the program. The cinemas had such a big drop in the audience, that they announced that they would give 1000 dollars anyway, to any viewer who was drawn and happened to be in the cinema, at the time of the programme.
The transition from a successful radio contest to the cinema does not seem at all logical or desirable, but a simple trick to gain audiences.
The duo of protagonists, James Stewart and Paulette Goddard, also seems a little unlikely for a musical comedy, although I must admit that they don't even do badly.
The musical arrangements are of excellent quality, authored by Basil Adlam, Frank de Vol and Dudley Chambers, under the musical direction of Louis Forbes and with the harmonicas of Jerry Adler and Nat Bergman, doubling the performances of James Stewart.
But even that doesn't save this typical production of the time. The plot is poor and predictable, a mere pretext for the succession of musical numbers. The characters lack depth, it's a light film, on all levels, that you forget ten minutes after it's over.
James Stewart himself, confronted, years later, with one of the most striking scenes in the film, when he is bombarded with a jet of water in the face, from a siphon, by Paulette Goddard, thought it was a sitcom, because he had no idea of having done that scene.
No wonder, the film was produced at the same time that Stewart was filming Ziegfeld Girl, with Judy Garland. The actor was taken from one studio to the other, several times a day, to be able to film both films at the same time.
A Hollywood serial product, for all intents and purposes, positive and negative.
The transition from a successful radio contest to the cinema does not seem at all logical or desirable, but a simple trick to gain audiences.
The duo of protagonists, James Stewart and Paulette Goddard, also seems a little unlikely for a musical comedy, although I must admit that they don't even do badly.
The musical arrangements are of excellent quality, authored by Basil Adlam, Frank de Vol and Dudley Chambers, under the musical direction of Louis Forbes and with the harmonicas of Jerry Adler and Nat Bergman, doubling the performances of James Stewart.
But even that doesn't save this typical production of the time. The plot is poor and predictable, a mere pretext for the succession of musical numbers. The characters lack depth, it's a light film, on all levels, that you forget ten minutes after it's over.
James Stewart himself, confronted, years later, with one of the most striking scenes in the film, when he is bombarded with a jet of water in the face, from a siphon, by Paulette Goddard, thought it was a sitcom, because he had no idea of having done that scene.
No wonder, the film was produced at the same time that Stewart was filming Ziegfeld Girl, with Judy Garland. The actor was taken from one studio to the other, several times a day, to be able to film both films at the same time.
A Hollywood serial product, for all intents and purposes, positive and negative.