Victor Moore and his partners are putting on a Broadway show, but they are virtually broke, so his partners' plan is to get Victor Moore some life insurance and then get the old man to croak so they can get the insurance money to pay the bills, in this 1930s movie musical. Dick Powell and Joan Blondell (real life husband and wife) star as the leads, who meet and fall in love and Glenda Farrell is on hand for some fine wisecracks and for being used to dupe Victor Moore. Joseph Crehan and Osgood Perkins (Psycho star Anthony Perkins' father) are Victor's partners who have this secret plan. The film on the whole is very enjoyable and pleasant, but is not terribly inspired or original; it's not that it's a bad film, it's just not that great of a film to write home about at all, along with the fact it's a tad long given for such a paper-thin plot. It's nowhere as good as its predecessors "Gold Diggers of 1933 and 1935", which featured some show-stopping musical numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It's also not as funny as "Gold Diggers in Paris" with Hugh Herbert. So all in all, if you like the stars and this type of movie musical, you'd probably like it, but you won't be wowed too much by some pretty forgettable songs. Period.
Review of Gold Diggers of 1937
