Six Hits and a Miss

It's hard to believe there was a time in our movie culture when audiences would have been entertained by short films like this.

Six Hits and a Miss was apparently an actual singing/dancing group in the 1940s, and this film is just 10 minutes or so of them performing while complex dance numbers unfold on screen. It goes on and on, with no real differentiation between the songs or dances, so that everything blends together.

It was a surprise to me to see fairly big-time director Jean Negulesco at the helm of this. He must not yet have made the transition to feature director, but he would be responsible later in his career for films like "Johnny Belinda" and "Three Coins in the Fountain."