In this Hal Roach musical comedy, the star is Billy Gilbert...and the rest are relative unknowns. The plot idea is pretty funny....but what follows just isn't.
When the story begins, the local opera company is heavily in debt with no relief in sight. To deal with this, the board of directors trick the very drunk Mr. Stanton into owning the theater...and assuming the $1,000,000 in debt! But the drunk guy has a plan....to get the very successful Pinsky burlesque troop next door to relocate to his theater and put on operas with a bit of skin.
How this really could have been funny...but, sadly, it wasn't. The singing isn't good and the cheesecake surprisingly muted for a pre-code film about burlesque entertainers! To me, this is like a basic story idea which hadn't been worked out nor given punch lines. Not terrible...but it should have been so much funnier....and it leaves you wondering where all the jokes went.
When the story begins, the local opera company is heavily in debt with no relief in sight. To deal with this, the board of directors trick the very drunk Mr. Stanton into owning the theater...and assuming the $1,000,000 in debt! But the drunk guy has a plan....to get the very successful Pinsky burlesque troop next door to relocate to his theater and put on operas with a bit of skin.
How this really could have been funny...but, sadly, it wasn't. The singing isn't good and the cheesecake surprisingly muted for a pre-code film about burlesque entertainers! To me, this is like a basic story idea which hadn't been worked out nor given punch lines. Not terrible...but it should have been so much funnier....and it leaves you wondering where all the jokes went.