No Nazis, snakes or bugs in this one, just a new take on the backstage Broadway musical genre that was so popular a few generations ago.
Indy finds himself in New York City looking for a job. He makes friends with a young George Gershwin and winds up as a gofer for the production of George White's Scandals. Along the way, he becomes romantically involved with three girls, all wonderfully stereotyped. There's the Midwest farm girl hoping to make it on Broadway, the Greenwich Village intellectual and the beautiful heiress.
Besides Indy's juggling three romances, the show itself is beset with problems, many of which involve sabotage by White's rival, Flo Ziegfeld. As always in this series, he meets many influential personalities of the era, including the composers of Tin Pan Alley and sitting in on the famed Algonquin Round Table.
But the show must go on with Indy's help, so he invents the fan dance (after Ziegfeld has the costumes stolen) and helps the farm girl go on to belt out a Gershwin classic to Save the Show.
Fun from start to finish. It's good to finally see it available on DVD.
Indy finds himself in New York City looking for a job. He makes friends with a young George Gershwin and winds up as a gofer for the production of George White's Scandals. Along the way, he becomes romantically involved with three girls, all wonderfully stereotyped. There's the Midwest farm girl hoping to make it on Broadway, the Greenwich Village intellectual and the beautiful heiress.
Besides Indy's juggling three romances, the show itself is beset with problems, many of which involve sabotage by White's rival, Flo Ziegfeld. As always in this series, he meets many influential personalities of the era, including the composers of Tin Pan Alley and sitting in on the famed Algonquin Round Table.
But the show must go on with Indy's help, so he invents the fan dance (after Ziegfeld has the costumes stolen) and helps the farm girl go on to belt out a Gershwin classic to Save the Show.
Fun from start to finish. It's good to finally see it available on DVD.