So there I was in Austin. And as usual, Craiggers and Mr. Hair were showing me a FABULOUS time, full of food and shows and tourist attractions and board games. Lovely. And one of the things we all like to do, and did a LOT of on this trip, is go to bookstores. Where I bought far too many things. Which I had to ship home.

But I digress.

One of the things I picked up in one of the bookstores was a dvd set of 20 musicals for 10 dollars. Now, I had actually seen two of them, Second Chorus and Til The Clouds Roll By, and knew that we weren't talking about the Best of MGM here...but it looked like fun. so I brought it home to Mr. Otter. And this was the first one we watched, since The Dancing Pirate wasn't actually in this collection.

This was interesting in that it's a very early talkie musical. It was supposed to be in technicolor, which in '29 probably meant a colored wash over the film rather than what we would consider a color movie, but this copy was in black and white. The sound is okay, and the film is grainy in places, but it's certainly very watchable.

Not as risque as other pre-code movies, it starts off rather incoherently, as if writers weren't sure where they were going. But it settles down to a pretty basic story with good dance numbers, good costumes and sets, and a bunch of actors I'd never heard of playing the lead parts.

Worth seeing, an okay story if a little disjointed, but not bad. Mr. Otter and I were in hysterics over the whole "nobody notices that the girl got hit by a car and is in the hospital" thing, though.