It may be that I bought a lousy print - it looks like at least a tenth generation but it can't be more than third - but this is hard going AND I'm a major Rodgers and Hart buff. The team came up with a great score and the best three numbers - Falling In Love With Love, Sing For Your Supper, This Can't Be Love - have been retained but they are just given a once-over-lightly with nothing even approaching a production number. Martha Raye is the best thing in it by a country mile and she shouldn't be given the veteran comics she is up against. She also has the best singing voice on the screen making Alan Jones sound like the mediocrity he was; Raye's tragedy was that because she excelled at comedy and had a funny face they never took her seriously as a singer. Luckily she made several discs away from the screen which are revered by buffs. We have to chalk this up as one that got away.
Review of The Boys from Syracuse
