Main Street Follies (1935)
** (out of 4)
Decent musical from Warner has Hal Le Roy singing and dancing his way through various skits all set around Main Street. A rival show producer sends a spy out to see what skits Le Roy will be doing in his upcoming act and these are the items we get to see. If I had never seen a musical before then I'd probably give this a higher rating but seeing as how Turner Classic Movies plays a new one each week, there's very little here for someone who has seen more from the genre. The short manages to move by pretty quickly as Le Roy is certainly charming enough to carry the film. His dancing is also very good and this is the main reason to watch the movie but in the end there's just nothing overly special here to make one track it down. The sets are decent but nothing great. The acts are decent but not great. Even the direction is, you guessed it, decent but not great. Outside of Le Roy's dancing, nothing here really sticks out too much and in the end this is a short you can miss.