Carole Landis gets a contract to sing at the busiest dance hall in Pennsylvania, and is a hit, particularly with manager Cesar Romero, who tries to put the moves on her. She makes friends with the hard-working William Storey, whose piano playing is the big draw. He and diner waitress June Storey are in love, but they're not going to do anything about it until he gets a break. Maybe that concerto he's een working on for years will pan out. Meanwhile, Romero has his own problems; a gambling habit leaves him perpetually stony, and when he realizes he's in love Miss Landis, he has already offended her enough. Besides, she's dating nice guy J. Edward Bromberg, who knows he's no prize, but loves her anyway.
It's one of 20th Century- Fox's more ambitious B movies under the direction of Irving Pichel, but despite some good music and spacious sets filled with lots of extras, it seems like a tentative, lower-class collection of might-have-beens and could-bes than anything definite. Still, there is some good comedy, some sense that little people have hearts, too, and if it never rises to anything great, it never fails to engage.
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