Once again Zorina proved that she was not the person for being Maria in "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
Nice to have seen what the late Donald O'Connor looked like as a boy. I knew it was him and was just waiting for cast confirmation at the end of the film.
The film would have been better had James Gleason and Queenie Smith, the parents of the boy, been given larger parts.
The film deals with a vaudeville couple and their son in an act. The boy eventually decides to write music instead and has grown up in the person of Eddie Albert.
Albert is pretty good on his feet.
The problem with this film is the writing. Albert soon gets involved with a Russian troupe and writes The Slaughter on 10th Avenue Ballet. The head of the ballet is a comic Alan Hale who wants some Russian killed. There are Russian mobsters to do the job. When Hale becomes jealous of Albert, he tells the mobsters that he is the Russian to be killed.
There are some hilarious ballet sequences and Zorina does show that she was meant to be a ballet star.
Nice to have seen what the late Donald O'Connor looked like as a boy. I knew it was him and was just waiting for cast confirmation at the end of the film.
The film would have been better had James Gleason and Queenie Smith, the parents of the boy, been given larger parts.
The film deals with a vaudeville couple and their son in an act. The boy eventually decides to write music instead and has grown up in the person of Eddie Albert.
Albert is pretty good on his feet.
The problem with this film is the writing. Albert soon gets involved with a Russian troupe and writes The Slaughter on 10th Avenue Ballet. The head of the ballet is a comic Alan Hale who wants some Russian killed. There are Russian mobsters to do the job. When Hale becomes jealous of Albert, he tells the mobsters that he is the Russian to be killed.
There are some hilarious ballet sequences and Zorina does show that she was meant to be a ballet star.