Really fun Donald O'Connor comedy musical benefits from Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbridge (coming off The Egg and I) in support. The set up could be used for a horror film - O'Connor is a travelling salesman kidnapped by hillbillies who want him to run for the town in a race. That could be a nightmare - here it's played for laughs.
O'Connor is locked in a barn and talks a lot to a horse - the year before he did Francis. He also does a spectacular solo number where he dances up a wall and flips years before Singing in the Rain. It's not really a musical though.
It is bright and energetic. Main and Kilbridge lift this above the usual O'Connor comedy from Universal. Penny Edwards is the girl.
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