Moonlight in Hawaii

Released just a few weeks before the attack at Pearl Harbor, this has everything you'd want in a Universal pre- WW2 swing-musical. With a "in the groove" plot, this has the best elements that made these B musicals fun. Jane Frazee and Johnny Downs exemplify what you want in leads, comedy with Leon Errol, one of the era's best singing group[s, The Merry Macs, singing the songs of Universal's house swing writing team of Raye & DePaul, some fine swing dancing and Mischa Auer, perfectly cast. (The only things missing are Shemp Howard and the Jivin' Jacks and Jills) Solid photography by Stanley Cortez and direction by Charles Lamont, one of the best B directors of the 1930s, who went on to helm Abbott & Costello . As long as it moves, plot doesn't matter much. Yesiree, this is Universal swing at it's B best! Just imagine seing this on a double bill with a Universal mystery or horror film such as Man Made Monster, released a few months later.