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If anyone ever questions the personal influence of Hal Roach on the motion pictures produced over the decades by his company, Hal Roach Studios, just sit them down to watch Road Show. For this, one of his very last directorial turns before the War effectively ended his moviemaking career, is a laughfest from beginning to end; loaded with the gags for which all of his great two-reel comedies had been world renown and which generally had been credited to the inventiveness of the comedians who had been their stars. But the magic came straight from The Old Man.
Road Show is a riotous comedic carnival ride barely slowed down for some top musical moments featuring songs by Hoagy Carmichael, as performed | | |
