Boring, Lame,

Yes, that's a good suggestion if they were to bring MST3K back!

Truly a laughably BAD movie. (Here's a hint- TCM screened it at 4 AM!!)

You must remember that this film was made in 1944. Students of film study will look at it differently as they see first the studio (PRC) the actors and then the material.
PRC / Producers Releasing Corp was a very small studio in the LA Valley with very limited funds for budgets or directorial material.
The Actors were stock PRC players, either very young like Johnny Duncan (later Robin in Batman and Robin in '49 serial by Columbia or washed out old timers from the early '30's. Warren Wiliam, Tom Neil, Bela Lugosi, the East Side Kids & Conrad Veith were a few of the exceptions.
The directors and material were just average except for Edgar Ulmer who did Detour in '45 w/ Tom Neil. Neil was a regular w/ PRC and Monogram low budget films of the 40's.
The film compliation you watched was no doubt a poor dupe at best. I have a crystal clear original print struck from a 1950 negative. It is much better to watch and you can actually see the shots in the nighttime scenes.
TCM played this movie today at 7:30AM and it was a nice original print.
Look for Johnny Duncan dancing with the girls doing the Jitterbug a very fast dance of the day. I know Johnny as he is still with us. He lives in the South and I call him from time to time to talk about the old days and his films. He is a very nice man anc willing to talk about the films he made at PRC and Monogram.
Hope next time you can use this bit of insight I have put forth to better judge the hokie films like DD and better understand the actors and studios like this were just grinding out this type of film to entertain and make a living.

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