Directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Cagney is cast against type as the writer of "prologues", musical stage productions that are performed before movies in the early days of the talkie. His ideas are being stolen by a rival production company by an insider. His last chance to save the company is to come up with three new numbers in a matter of days, and he locks the entire cast and crew inside to do it. The dialogue is fast, the innuendo often raunchy and the girls barely dressed, all leading up to three over-the-top Busby Berkeley numbers. Borderline "so bad it's good", but no doubting it is fun.
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