Just watched a Japanese-dubbed version of this movie on YouTube though the songs are intact in the original English-dubbed versions. Good thing I found one of the scenes-the one where Danny Kaye is playing poker with pre-teen daughter Susan Gordon who's bluffing-in the actual American print so I understood that scene when I then watched the version I mentioned at the beginning of this review. I also read the synopsis of this on Wikipedia beforehand so that also helped me fill in the blanks as well. Anyway, with all that said, I really enjoyed this biopic of musician Red Nichols which I know is loosely based on his life and Kaye's performance as him. Yeah, I recognized some of Danny's trademark facial expressions and voice sounds whenever he did those to cheer up his daughter but he also did some good dramatic scenes like when he found out that daughter had polio. Barbara Bel Geddes was also pretty good as wife Willa Slutsman along with Ms. Gordon and Tuesday Weld as Dorothy Nichols when growing from child to teen. But the real highlights are some numbers by Kaye and Louis Armstrong who really pull out the stops in entertainment, with some nice help from Ms. Gordon there as well. By the way, this was the same Susan Gordon who appeared in some of her father Bert I. Gordon's movies. Oh, and while I know Ms. Bel Geddes' singing was dubbed by Eileen Wilson, her lip movements during some of her songs would've convinced me if I didn't know. Hope to one day see the actual American print of this movie. But despite the washed out video print I watched on YT, I enjoyed The Five Pennies just the same.