I looked in vain for any trace of Runyon here. True, there are a pair of bloodhounds and true, they do migrate to New York from Georgia but that's where Fox and Runyon part company. It's difficult to believe that not only were major studios turning out hoke like this in the fifties but that audiences were actually sitting still for it. It seems that there WERE musicals around this time that really were tuneful and entertaining - Singin' In The Rain, Lili, Small Town Girl, I Love Melvin, On Moonlight Bay, and more but significantly none of the above emanated from Fox who had certainly turned out their share of memorable fodder featuring the likes of Alice Fay, Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Tyrone Power et al. This was probably just a glitz.
Review of Bloodhounds of Broadway
