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This is a nice little musical that's just a lot of fun. Frank Morgan is outstanding as usual. The supporting cast, including Billie Burke, Sara Haydin,and Virginia Gray are all fine. Compared to today's movies with all the violence and cynicism, movies like Hullabaloo are wonderful escape mechanisms.

This was a surprisingly good film. I expected a tear jerker but instead found a pleasent, entertaining story. Although, I must confess what makes the movie so entertaining for me is the role of Jack Carson. Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan made several movies together, and they were never better. I am a big Jack Carson fan. He can play a villain or a buffoon and make the character believable. He usually played, as in this film, second banana to the star of the movie, and like all great second bananas, he steals every scene he's in.

I thought this was a compelling story with an all-star cast. Bette Davis's selfishness and callousness leads to her doom. When she kills a little girl in a hit and run accident, she tries to blame it on the black man who works for her family. when the truth comes out, she tries to escape and is killed when her car goes off the road and over an embankment.

One of the most dramatic scenes of the movie occurs when she runs to her grandfather, Charles Coburn, for help. He is distraught, having just learned that he has but six months to live. When she realizes that he cannot help her, she becomes outraged and tells him he shouldn't be upset because he is old and has already lived his life; whereas, she is young and could spend the rest of her life in jail. The fact that she falsely accuses a black man makes the story even more dramatic. I think this is a great movie.