The Strip
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.
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"Rootless kid (Rooney) goes to LA, hooks up with a smooth-talking mobster (Craig) and an ambitious nightclub dancer (Forrest), and gets into trouble as a result. Despite its odd parts, this little b&w adds up to a pretty entertaining whole. The numbers from jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden should please even those who don't much care for that style. Rooney of course is Rooney, a little man in a big man's world. No longer Andy Hardy, he was increasingly difficult to cast despite continuing popularity. Here his connection to mobster Craig is quite a stretch. Too bad ..."
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One of several "fringe" musicals in the MGM canon, meaning dramas or comedies that feature one or more musical numbers, but not enough to qualify it as a proper musical. It actually includes a great deal of music, including several drum solos by Mickey Rooney, floor show routines by Sally Forrest, and songs performed by Vic Damone, Monica Lewis, Jack Teagarden, and Louis Armstrong, one of which would grow into a standard, "A Kiss to Build a Dream On". But the musical numbers all are presentational, as opposed to springing from the the plot, so the film is often bypassed by critics and historians in their discussion of movie musicals.
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Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.