Jimmy Lloyd and Mark Roberts are on 36-hour leave. Roberts is rich, but for some reason which is explained but doesn't stick, they pretend Lloyd is the rich one. They head over to a taxi-dance joint, where Jane Frazee is a singer and dancer. The girls are trying to raise money for one of their number who has been injured to get an operation. Their boss, John Calvert says if they can locate a sucker, he'll put together a game to raise the money. He then palms a card beautifully.
This is a movie with lots of good bits that don't add up and don't connect more than the most primitive of romantic comedies. Miss Frazee sings the Rodgers-Hart "Ten Cents a Dance" at the beginning -- a great song, a good version, but too on-the-nose. DP Benjamin Kline shoots a fight near the end with a series of tilted cameras. Everyone is charming and facile, and then a plot point jumps ahead. It's one of those poorly put together movies with some good moments.
One scene which director Will Jason puts in, which has minimal plot utility, but makes watching the movie at least briefly worthwhile, is a jam session at 15 to 20 minutes in. I recognized Joe Venuti on the fiddle; the other players are excellent, although I am waiting for my jazz maven from Toronto to let me know who they are.
This is a movie with lots of good bits that don't add up and don't connect more than the most primitive of romantic comedies. Miss Frazee sings the Rodgers-Hart "Ten Cents a Dance" at the beginning -- a great song, a good version, but too on-the-nose. DP Benjamin Kline shoots a fight near the end with a series of tilted cameras. Everyone is charming and facile, and then a plot point jumps ahead. It's one of those poorly put together movies with some good moments.
One scene which director Will Jason puts in, which has minimal plot utility, but makes watching the movie at least briefly worthwhile, is a jam session at 15 to 20 minutes in. I recognized Joe Venuti on the fiddle; the other players are excellent, although I am waiting for my jazz maven from Toronto to let me know who they are.