Saturday, March 19, 2016

Movie review - "Dance Hall Racket" (1954) *

A film from Phil Tucker who made Robot Monster - this isn't nearly as much fun, despite the novelty of a script written by Lenny Bruce, who also appears along with his partner Honey. It lacks any of that famed Bruce humour/energy.

There's not real story - it's a connection of scenes about various people at a dance hall. You can get away with that if the scenes are interesting and the acting/treatment is good which isn't the case here. It's hard to follow who is who or know what is going on. Most of the scenes are two or three handers of people just shot statically against a wall. Exploitation means a few girls prance around in underwear but this is tame too. Dull rather than fun.

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