Say One For Me

This was the third time Crosby donned the clerical collar for a movie and by far the least impressive. It can best be described as a religious musical comedy that owes a lot to Damon Runyon, but it fails to come close to the Broadway characters chronicled by the man who inspired GUYS AND DOLLS. Crosby runs a show business church (there really was one, St. Malachy's, in the theater district in New York) where just about all the devout are in some way aligned with the entertainment field. Crosby reads the show-biz trade papers and runs his services like Fat Jack Leonard monologues. Enter Reynolds, a naive collegian who wants to make a lot of money in show business be...