Over-hyped musical with nothing going for it besides the music. Weakest romantic triangle ever seen up to that time. Don Ameche steps aside, Tyrone Power steps in, then Power splits as if he prefers the battlefield, then Ameche marries the girl, then gives her up with a shrug when Power returns. The three then resurrect their night club act. Eww!
Not to mention those romantic lines like “Here’s for all the times I wanted to wring your neck!”
I'll watch it anyway as part of my anthropological study of the late thirties.
Well, I finally got around to checking it out. I agree the plot is pretty weak. But not much more so than some of the Fred and Ginger musicals. Of course, Tyrone and Alice are not in the Fred and Ginger league. I thought the slightly spooky cab driver (John Carradine) was a nice feature. Also noteworthy was the way they condensed the troopship voyage overseas, the horrors of the World War, and the troopship voyage back home into about 45 seconds.