Review of Going Places

Sporting goods salesman uses the alias of a lauded horse-jockey from Australia to infiltrate Georgian high society to help promote his employer...how soon do you think it will be before he's on a racehorse himself? Semi-musical farce with romantic interludes also features Louis Armstrong performing the Oscar-nominated "Jeepers Creepers" to an unbroken horse who appreciates good jazz. Some amusing complications in an otherwise overly-familiar script adapted from the play "The Hottentot" by Victor Mapes and William Collier--it took even more writers to come up with the screenplay! In the lead, Dick Powell has such an easy, unassuming nature, one tends to give the film greater compliments than it really deserves. Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer wrote the songs, all novelty numbers. ** from ****