Lower budgeted musical - songs from the Sherman brothers. I kept forgetting it was a musical - occasionally a character will burst into song.
It's dull. Amiable, but dull. The tunes aren't bad. It looks okay - decent enough production value. J. Lee Thompson directed - he wasn't known for musicals but he did some: The Good Companions, a sequence or two in What a Way to Go.
Jeff East is a dull Huck - no life, no spark. I forgot at times he was in the movie - I think Thompson sensed his weakness and gave scenes to his co stars. This kid is a trouble maker?
Paul Winfield is fine. Harvey Korman and David Wayne bring some life camping it up as con men.
The making of this was more interesting - Arthur Jacobs dying of a heart attack, Winfield getting arrested for marijuana possession in Natchez.
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