...as to what it wanted to be. A comedy, a musical, a fantasy, a romance. Jimmy Stewart said it was his least favourite of all his movies. But I enjoyed his singing in one part of it (another part was dubbed) and some of the scenes are fun, the dancing and singing especially. It gave me the feeling it had about 5 different directors, each with his own vision, 4 script writers with different skill sets, I was strangely uninvolved apart from determining the level of embarrassment our Jimmy tried not show in each scene. Paulette had some nice numbers, particularly a rumba scene and I was delighted to spot a dapper and suave Art Carney as a radio announcer. Some neat little bits that were funny as in Jimmy telling the mother of a little girl that she needed to practice the piano a little harder and then the mother leaves and the child proceeds to play like a prodigy and everyone ignores her. This could have been a really funny movie but it missed by a wide mark. It was almost as if everyone got bored with the whole project about 1/3 of the way through. A 4 out of 10.
Review of Pot o' Gold
