Palmy Days

If you're in the mood to get away from all your cares, this is just the ticket. Busby Berkeley dance numbers, songs and dialog with double-entendres, and, unfortunately, a black-face number (thus the four stars instead of five). The goofiness of Eddie Cantor and Joan Greenwood is priceless.

Arrived as advertised. Packaged professionally.

Light musical comedy set in a bakery business, with a couple of Busby Berkeley coreographies and lots of Eddie Cantor gags and numbers, helped by Charlotte Greenwood as a physical trainer, whose tall stature makes a comic contrast with Eddie. He stars as a false medium's assistant who is mistankenly taken by an expert and hired by the bakery owner, sucessfully transforms the business into a sort of show-cafè and then tries to prevent it from being robbed by the medium's gang (with a young Georges Raft in it), while falling in love with the boss' daughter (Joan Clark).

These Warner Archives films tend to be expensive but this has some excellent moments, especially Charlotte Greenwood and the Goldwyn Girls with "Bend Down Sister".Look out for some cheeky pre Code moments, eg the rather effete gent who orders a cake to be iced with pansies.