Super-boring crooner Al Jolson is famous for uttering a spoken line in The Jazz Singer, which continues to be mistakenly regarded as the first talkie.
Not content with spending the 20s offending more talented bl3ck performers, Jolson turns his attention to offending Mexicans in this movie.
We see him in a Tijuana nightclub wearing Mexican peasant clothes and singing AyeAye Manyana or something. Cringe.
Film also suffers from having sidekick Patsy Kelly, whose unfunny shouting of lines presages the ''comedy" portion of leftyst mouthpiece Tom Hanks' career.
The set are terribly underlit. The nightclub scenes aren't entertaining. The dames are marginal. And that Jolson smile is p3dophile-level creep-a-palooza. Even the C-rate attempt at a Busby Berkeley number is dull.
Three directors are credited. Maybe they spliced together three terrible Al Jolson movies and called it a day. How was that guy popular?
Not content with spending the 20s offending more talented bl3ck performers, Jolson turns his attention to offending Mexicans in this movie.
We see him in a Tijuana nightclub wearing Mexican peasant clothes and singing AyeAye Manyana or something. Cringe.
Film also suffers from having sidekick Patsy Kelly, whose unfunny shouting of lines presages the ''comedy" portion of leftyst mouthpiece Tom Hanks' career.
The set are terribly underlit. The nightclub scenes aren't entertaining. The dames are marginal. And that Jolson smile is p3dophile-level creep-a-palooza. Even the C-rate attempt at a Busby Berkeley number is dull.
Three directors are credited. Maybe they spliced together three terrible Al Jolson movies and called it a day. How was that guy popular?