This sound movie is named after a silent film that I like "The Perils of Pauline" and made many years after it.Not really knowing what this film was about I had no curiosity about it.Usually the only kind of musical that interests me is something like "Go Johnny Go" or "Don't Knock the Rock".Add to this I don't know who Betty Hutton is and chances for me liking this film was slim,too bad I was right.What was the problem? Pearl White was Queen of the serials,this movie wants to show her as a comic/bumbling person,maybe they were trying to pass her off as Mabel Normand.The dragged out sneeze scene was a dud and for some reason they had to have Hutton go around in blackface,maybe someone thought that was a knee slapper. Hutton was suppose to be about 27 years old at this time but for some reason she looks closer to 37.To my recollection I never seen Pearl White with the hairstyle Betty Hutton has in this movie,she looks like Spring Byington from December bride.The two most important guys for Hutton in the movie seem to like talking to each other more than to her.Best part of the movie was seeing silent film stars like Farnum,Conklin,Panzer,Pollard,etc.Had this movie been given another title I more than likely would of never watched it.
Review of The Perils of Pauline
