Recut from the original Come Up Smiling - I'm not sure what was added. Maybe another song? I'm guessing the bit at the end when the kid shoves ants in Will Mahoney's pants.
Half a good film. Slick. Mahoney is engaging. Clearly talented.
Script a bit of a mess. It's a bunch of incidents and bits. Mahoney at the circus. Mahoney looks after soprano Jean Hatton (why not make them father and daughter? Why make Sid Wheeler Hatton's dad?) Mhoney raising money to help Hatton's voice. Gets in the boxing ring. There's something about gangsters. Mahoney in blackface with a lamb. Mahoney at a snobby party. Mahoney in love with Shirley Ann Richards who is with John Fleeting. Why? Richards could've been cut out of the movie. And Fleeting.
They should've made Richards into Mahoney's daughter. Or sister. She's helping raise Hatton - give her stakes. She's just in the film. Have her fall in love with Fleeting not be with Fleeting.
Evie Hayes is in it - Mahoney's wife. She helps him train, I think. Sings a number. There's a few numbers.
It's slick. Technically. Not story wise. Frank Harvey didn't write this and you can tell.
Chips Rafferty is an extra but good luck spotting him.
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