I doubt anyone is watching "One Night in the Tropics" for Allan Jones and his singing. Maybe I'm wrong--but I doubt it. The obvious selling point to this feature is the on screen debut of burlesque and radio veterans Bud Abbott and Lou Costello--known for their legendary verbal banter and routines which still delight legions of fans to this day.
And "Tropics" gives us quite a few of the timeless routines A & C perfected--"Who's on First", "Mustard", "Two Tens for a Five", "Jonah and the Whale" and maybe my favorite of all of them, "Paid in Full" where poor Lou is expecting to get a year's worth of salary from Bud, but after some verbal finagling ends up with one dollar. Bud should have been working for the IRS.
Pretty Peggy Moran adds something to the proceedings as well--although this film is built around a lot of devices that would hamper many of the early A & C features; namely a lot of singing and dancing numbers and the ever popular romantic subplot.
But overall, "Tropics" is a pleasing entry in the A & C canon.
And "Tropics" gives us quite a few of the timeless routines A & C perfected--"Who's on First", "Mustard", "Two Tens for a Five", "Jonah and the Whale" and maybe my favorite of all of them, "Paid in Full" where poor Lou is expecting to get a year's worth of salary from Bud, but after some verbal finagling ends up with one dollar. Bud should have been working for the IRS.
Pretty Peggy Moran adds something to the proceedings as well--although this film is built around a lot of devices that would hamper many of the early A & C features; namely a lot of singing and dancing numbers and the ever popular romantic subplot.
But overall, "Tropics" is a pleasing entry in the A & C canon.