An awful hodge-podge that nearly ended the brief musical era before it really started. MacDonald is a sweet Norwegian girl who is the lottery bride of the brother of the man she loves. The story has more twists than California's Route One with many attempts at comedy (by Joe E. Brown as a
bandleader in a nightclub known as "The Jazzy Viking") that all fall flat under Stein's heavy-handed direction. Garrick, a handsome British actor recruited from the stage, does what he can with the convoluted material as does Chisholm, playing Garrick's brother. In an attempt to pack a lot of
story and songs into this frozen story, they've made it denser than a glacier, and just a...
Released:
1930
Rated:
NR
Length:
80 mins