Wabash Avenue (1950)
7/10
Old fashioned a lot of fun musical period, after 45 years waiting for!!
3 August 2023
Another movie watched at period 1978's era of my youth time, haven't seeing it until nowadays for any source, due it wasn't release on DVD format and almost forgotten from cable TV and so for, thus the only way to re-watch it again appeal on Youtube where some channels had it on bad shape, any subtitles at all, it somehow has served its purpose plenty in last night.

A Fox musical with Betty Grable means a huge box-office at its time, on so glorious dancing & singing girl, in other hand the male star Victor Mature whereof hasn't any skill to do nothing on musicals, thus the producers allowed him a manager of showbiz, Wabash Avenue as title is mean a famous Chicago avenue where all began in burlesque night club where the owner Mike Stanley (Phil Harris) has a star Ruby Summers (Betty Grable) when sudden appears an old acquaintance of Mike the skunk Andy Clark (Victor Mature) whom in the past was Mike's partner, Andy is broke, meanwhile flirting on Ruby he envisages on Mike's lofty position to reach on the top, he suggests become his partner on a newest high class enterprise which Mike promptly denied.

Cornered Andy enforced a riot on the night club over the Ladies's league of the decency protesting in front there, thus the Ladies invade the place causing struggles and breaking breaks widespread, on the fight Mike ends up punched so hardly his old pal and hammered singer-tap dancer Harrigan (James Barton) that hits his head in a bar fainting after, the wise Andy grabs Harrigan and pretend him as a dead man to naïve Mike who begs to Andy does not telling it to the police, the greedy Andy agrees as long as he becomes his partner on high class night club, in a dead end Mike surrender, however the farse doesn't take too long.

A forgotten picture in lowest numbers of reviews posted here, impossible not to laugh on ferris wheel sequence when Mike is misleading by Andy, when Mike is about to asking Ruby hands for a marriage without notice a sailor in double seat, what a funniest scene, both double-crossing each other along the entire picture, priceless, as the whole, worthwhile take a look.

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First watch: 1978 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.
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