Alpha Video which continues to serve serious movie lovers, especially those who want to explore the past through films that will never make it to TV, has an interesting item in 1933's "The Phantom Broadcast." The plot is simple: a much beleaguered by adoring female fans crooner is a first class fraud. Actually "his" voice is that of his crippled accompanist and manager, referred to as "the hunchback."
Singer and manager both pursue the beautiful, innocent girl. The singer is also beset with the affections of a discarded mistress who won't take "no" or "get lost" for a permanent disposition of a tired relationship. Exit singer through a bullet wound.
The sweet, decent gal is a suspect but the old hunchback tries to attract the law's heat to protect her. Such nobility.
Nothing novel about the plot but the acting is, largely, not bad.
For $4.99, which is what I paid, this was 73 minutes of entertainment. Now who do I palm the DVD off to?
Singer and manager both pursue the beautiful, innocent girl. The singer is also beset with the affections of a discarded mistress who won't take "no" or "get lost" for a permanent disposition of a tired relationship. Exit singer through a bullet wound.
The sweet, decent gal is a suspect but the old hunchback tries to attract the law's heat to protect her. Such nobility.
Nothing novel about the plot but the acting is, largely, not bad.
For $4.99, which is what I paid, this was 73 minutes of entertainment. Now who do I palm the DVD off to?