Review of Girl Rush

When Abbott and Costello became the number one team in motion picture comedy in the early 1940's, imitators were bound to pop up, even ones who had already been around. Olsen and Johnson, a popular vaudeville team with a hit Broadway show, "Hellzapoppin'", returned to the movies to some success. While very funny, they only lasted a sort time, but RKO's answer to try and imitate them, Wally Brown and Alan Carney, was not. Each of their "B" grade films was a pale imitations of Abbott and Costello's, and "Girl Rush" is no exception. It is only slightly saved by the singing of Frances Langford, character actress Sara Padden, and the presence of a rugged actor named Robert Mitchum. This entry in their short-lived RKO stay is a Western musical about a gold strike, but the result is a gas strike, and not the kind you put in your car. Add on a helium voiced Gracie Allen imitator (Patti Brill) for further groans. The sight of Brown and Carney in drag would send most gold miners running back to the hills.