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A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too. The Taxi dancer (Miriam Hopkins), The Big band leader (Jack Oakie), and the Gangster (George Raft).
Most notable about the film is its main set.
Really the film only takes place on the one set and it's a doozy: this massive dance floor with a bandstage in the center, with surreal architecture swooping and spanning above and about the entirety.
Oblong shadows are cast all over the expanse, lending the film a German Expressionistic/Dr. Caligari feel. Paramount went to some lengths to create this set; it's unfortunate the story doesn't live up to it.
I can only imagine what a Josef von Sternberg or a Lubitsch or even a Leisen would've done with such promising décor.
Acting-wise everyone performs admirably; Raft has the sneering gangster bit down pat and Jack Oakie's at his gum-chewing, line-dropping best.
Miriam Hopkins carries the brunt of it, ranging from drama to comedy.
The movie was written by Herman J. Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), Brian Marlow, and Howard Emmett Rogers from the play Jazz King by James Ashmore Creelman, and directed by David Burton.
[edit] Cast
* Miriam Hopkins as Gloria Bishop
* Jack Oakie as Duke Taylor
* George Raft as Louie Brooks
* William Collier, Jr. as Floyd Stevens
* Eugene Pallette as Gus
* Lyda Roberti as Fanny Zabowolski
* Paul Fix as Benny |
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