The local public library had its winter "bag sale" with all the videos you can fit into a grocery bag for $4. I kind of overfilled the bag so gave them more. Included in the haul of 100 old VHS and newer DVD's for $10 was this little lost film. Sadly, it could / should have stayed lost.
To give it the benefit of the doubt, the music and the singing was really good ! BUT... there was a thin and extremely stupid "plot" and what there was served only to hang the songs on. Several of the songs were not even sung all the way through. Snippets of Steve (sic) Foster.
The film would have been much improved if it had deliberately been about the Christy Minstrels and not supposedly a biography of Stephen Foster. Most of the songs were performed by Ray Middleton as Christy. I was amazed to find that the film had been made in 1952 as it has a real 1930's look and feel to it. It had one of those awful minstrel shows with even Rex Allen in a Blackfaced cameo.
Another one of those " give it a miss" films. Even if you find it for one thin dime !
To give it the benefit of the doubt, the music and the singing was really good ! BUT... there was a thin and extremely stupid "plot" and what there was served only to hang the songs on. Several of the songs were not even sung all the way through. Snippets of Steve (sic) Foster.
The film would have been much improved if it had deliberately been about the Christy Minstrels and not supposedly a biography of Stephen Foster. Most of the songs were performed by Ray Middleton as Christy. I was amazed to find that the film had been made in 1952 as it has a real 1930's look and feel to it. It had one of those awful minstrel shows with even Rex Allen in a Blackfaced cameo.
Another one of those " give it a miss" films. Even if you find it for one thin dime !