Director: JOSEPH SANTLEY. Screenplay: Karen DeWolf and Jack Roberts. Film editor: Edwin Bryant. Photographed by Vincent Farrar. Art director: Harold H. MacArthur. Set decorator: George Montgomery. Hair styles: Helen Hunt. Make-up: Bob Meading. Stills: Bill Thomas. Camera operator: Irving Klein. Set continuity: Polly Craus. Gaffer: Al Layter. Grip: Red Ducharme.
Music director: Morris Stoloff. Songs: "When You're Smiling" (Laine) by Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay; "Georgia On My Mind" (Laine) by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell; "That Old Black Magic" by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer; "When the Wind Was Green" by Don Hunt; "Deed I Do" Production manager: Jack Fier. Assistant director: James Nicholson. Sound recording: Edward Fogetti. Producer: Jonie Taps.
Copyright 21 August 1950 by Columbia Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: September 1950. U.K. release: 13 November 1950. Australian release: 22 December 1950. 6,818 feet. 75 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A young Texan comes to Hollywood to learn the music recording business.
COMMENT: Frankie Laine is one of my favorites, and this is as a good a vehicle for his talents as any, especially as it also features Billy Daniels and Bob Crosby. The story isn't much but it does tie the numbers together ably enough. Production values are reasonably competent and it is modestly but convincingly directed by Joseph Santley, who, despite his remarkably active movie career (95 credits stretching from 1928 through 1962), seems to be completely forgotten today.
Music director: Morris Stoloff. Songs: "When You're Smiling" (Laine) by Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay; "Georgia On My Mind" (Laine) by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell; "That Old Black Magic" by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer; "When the Wind Was Green" by Don Hunt; "Deed I Do" Production manager: Jack Fier. Assistant director: James Nicholson. Sound recording: Edward Fogetti. Producer: Jonie Taps.
Copyright 21 August 1950 by Columbia Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: September 1950. U.K. release: 13 November 1950. Australian release: 22 December 1950. 6,818 feet. 75 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A young Texan comes to Hollywood to learn the music recording business.
COMMENT: Frankie Laine is one of my favorites, and this is as a good a vehicle for his talents as any, especially as it also features Billy Daniels and Bob Crosby. The story isn't much but it does tie the numbers together ably enough. Production values are reasonably competent and it is modestly but convincingly directed by Joseph Santley, who, despite his remarkably active movie career (95 credits stretching from 1928 through 1962), seems to be completely forgotten today.
