This Universal B comedy with music is quite funny, overloading the slapstick with some fun musical interludes including the once popular title song. Tom Brown is a rather boyish truck driver who finds himself accompanied by runaway heiress Peggy Moran who wants to get to New York apparently to elope. Their initial meeting (the result of a comical car crash) isn't friendly with her roadster trapped over a cliff in the funniest of ways.
Then they're part of a shootout between the police and a group of bank robbers, ultimately forced to pick up one of them (Allen Jenkins, as delightfully dumb as ever), and found themselves dealing with roadblocks, wacky stops along the road and the incentive garage and motor lodge owner Donald Meek who has a great series of contraptions hidden inside his guest rooms. Of course Brown and Moran end up falling for each other, right after a memorable rendition of the title song.
This is filled with lots of laughs among the music and fast moving road action. Brown and Moran are feisty and charming, and Jenkins gets a good deal of chuckles from his mangling of the English language and general stupidity in the way he thinks. Meek as always is totally adorable, basically the Wallace Shawn of his era, and robbing each scene he's in to the point where he gets a ticket to be committed to appearing in more films like this so he can commit the same crime all over again. Universal made a lot of B comedy musicals in the 1940's, most of them very mediocre, but this one ranks as one of the better ones.
Then they're part of a shootout between the police and a group of bank robbers, ultimately forced to pick up one of them (Allen Jenkins, as delightfully dumb as ever), and found themselves dealing with roadblocks, wacky stops along the road and the incentive garage and motor lodge owner Donald Meek who has a great series of contraptions hidden inside his guest rooms. Of course Brown and Moran end up falling for each other, right after a memorable rendition of the title song.
This is filled with lots of laughs among the music and fast moving road action. Brown and Moran are feisty and charming, and Jenkins gets a good deal of chuckles from his mangling of the English language and general stupidity in the way he thinks. Meek as always is totally adorable, basically the Wallace Shawn of his era, and robbing each scene he's in to the point where he gets a ticket to be committed to appearing in more films like this so he can commit the same crime all over again. Universal made a lot of B comedy musicals in the 1940's, most of them very mediocre, but this one ranks as one of the better ones.
