Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2690 in VHS
• Released on: 1995-02-24
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Black & White, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Customer Reviews

Top quality entertainment of a lasting character.
Early Crosby show with top quality acting. This is one of Bing's first movies, with his acting ability already perfected. Plot ranks with most of the era, perhaps a bit cornball, but leaves the viewer with a happy feeling for having seen it. Sound quality is very good also.

1933 DELIGHT
Marion Davies plays a teacher at a girl's school who's bored with academics and wants to explore the world; she also idolises crooner Der Bingle and decides she will find him, so off she goes in hot pursuit..........A rare glimpse at the decidedly lovely & elusive La Davies is interesting, but the movie belongs to Bing. The best ingredient of the whole film is his rendition of TEMPTATION which was penned by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown for the movie. The scene where Crosby belts out GOING HOLLYWOOD in a Hollywoodised Grand Central Station will be remembered by 70's moviegoers in a clip from THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT. Marion Davies was impressive in her big number, WE'LL MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES and there is a funny (if exaggeratted) comic performance by Fifi D'Orsay as a hot-tempered movie star. It would be fun to see more of the elusive Marion Davies on video. Contrary to popular belief, she wasn't a no-talent bimbo as dipicted by Orson Welles' Susan Alexander in CITIZEN KANE; she was a gifted light comedienne who was hampered by Hearst's insistence that she be seen in innocent ingenue-type roles. At thirty-five, she supposedly gave a superlative performance as PEG O' MY HEART!

Mexican Cantina Mystery
Yes, I loved this movie but for reasons that others might have overlooked. The obvious: Bing Crosby's singing! Every scene that Bing graced left me wanting more. He was so young and handsome. The overlooked: The Mexican cantina. The song "Temptation" that he sings to Fifi D'Orsay. The crowded dance floor with the hypnotic dancers moving slowly along. I wish someone would come along and make an entire movie based on that cantina, its inhabitants, and crowded dance floor.