This Ben Hecht story is a bit uneven but showcases Jack Oakie and Dorothy Dell, so how bad can it be? Oakie plays a showbiz conman, hawking a stuffed whale exhibit on 42nd and doing anything to get noticed.
Sort of like a Kay Kyser movies five years before Kay Kyser started making movies, this is a second string musical comedy that seems to be lowered after the flagpole sitting scene ends. It's a dated style of comedy and a series of mediocre novelty musical numbers that surrounds big shot Jack Oakie promoting singer Dorothy Dell over girlfriend Arline Judge as well as the band lead by Ben Bernie which is sponsored for radio here by none other than the futute Fred Mertz (William Frawley).
As a great fan of thirties musicals i watched this film in anticipation of an enjoyable 80 minutes.The writers on this are well known and i always rather like Jack Oakie.
