Dixiana 1930 Story by Anne Caldwell, script by Luther Reed, directed by Luther Reed. Another film partially filmed in two strip Technicolor. They shot the last twenty minutes in Technicolor but it was thought lost until 1988 when the sequence was found and restored to the film. Max Steiner received his first credit for orchestration.
The third film for Wheeler and Woolsey still doesn't bill them as a team. This time the boys are circus performers in the antebellum south. Wheeler and Wolsey are partners in an act with Dixiana. She decides to leave the circus to marry the son of a rich plantation owner and they tag along to see the wedding.
The guys reveal they are circus folk and that goes down with the rich parents not at all. A big hubbub happens and the trio return to New Orleans. Unable to get their old jobs back Dixiana takes a job in a music hall run by a crooked scumbag. He wants to use Dixiana to ruin the rich family who spurned her, not to help her out but to make money for himself. Eventually it all works out.
I got a laugh or two, Wheeler and Woolsey have some better jokes and there's plenty of running about and yelling. You can see the film, click the link above.
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