BOOTLEG FILES 952: “San Antonio Rose” (1941 musical comedy with Lon Chaney Jr. and Shemp Howard).

LAST SEEN: On YouTube.

AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.

REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: There may be a rights issue holding it up.

CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: It doesn’t seem likely.

“San Antonio Rose” is not a great film. I don’t know if I have the temerity to say that it is a good film. But it is a happy distraction from a long-gone genre: the B-grade jukebox musical that only needed an hour and change to fill the screen with zippy pop songs, good looking young performers, silly comedy relief, and a surplus of energy.
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