The Sky's the Limit
The Sky's the Limit" is a light comedy of a popular variety, nicely decorated with song and dance, handsomely staged and crisply written, with a sprinkling of good lines and an occasional happy twist to its situations to relieve the strain on a very slender story. Its hero is an aircraft designer with an inventive brain but no push. His room-mate and colleague at the Beckley Aircraft Company composes songs in his off hours, has plenty of push, but, like his friend, no money to exploit his modest talent. It remains, then, for a lovely opera star to supply the incentive for the inventor's rise to fame and affluence in an airplane of a new design and to launch the airman-composer's little love-song. Within this framework, the useful theme of mistaken identity, so productive of comic embarrassment, lovers' meetings and quarrels, and the tactics of resourceful heroes, plays its part. It provides Mr. Buchanan with one of his best scenes, wherein he escorts the lovely singer to a fashionable restaurant, where he suffers acute discomfort owing to his lack of funds and his guest's smiling determination to '"'have everything." The stars play delightfully into each other's hands, Miss Losseff, with a radiant gaiety that enhances her undoubted good looks (to which she adds a light soprano voice skillfully managed and a spirited attack on her comedy material), and Mr. Buchanan with that swift transition from assurance to distress that is part of his humorous equipment. His clowning has an elegance derived from his own long-limbed grace and well-groomed personality-an elegance reflected in the picture's polish, fluency, and pleasant interpolations of ballads and dances. With Mr. David Hutcheson lending excellent support as the hero's volatile friend, "The Sky's the Limit" has a fresh and breezy humor to keep it sailing merrily on a sparkling surface.
- 1938
- 1 Hr 18 Mins
- Music, Comedy
The Sky's the Limit" is a light comedy of a popular variety, nicely decorated with song and dance, handsomely staged and crisply written, with a sprinkling of good lines and an occasional happy twist to its situations to relieve the strain on a very slender story. Its hero is an aircraft designer with an inventive brain but no push. His room-mate and colleague at the Beckley Aircraft Company composes songs in his off hours, has plenty of push, but, like his friend, no money to exploit his modest talent. It remains, then, for a lovely opera star to supply the incentive for the inventor's rise to fame and affluence in an airplane of a new design and to launch the airman-composer's little love-song. Within this framework, the useful theme of mistaken identity, so productive of comic embarrassment, lovers' meetings and quarrels, and the tactics of resourceful heroes, plays its part. It provides Mr. Buchanan with one of his best scenes, wherein he escorts the lovely singer to a fashionable restaurant, where he suffers acute discomfort owing to his lack of funds and his guest's smiling determination to '"'have everything." The stars play delightfully into each other's hands, Miss Losseff, with a radiant gaiety that enhances her undoubted good looks (to which she adds a light soprano voice skillfully managed and a spirited attack on her comedy material), and Mr. Buchanan with that swift transition from assurance to distress that is part of his humorous equipment. His clowning has an elegance derived from his own long-limbed grace and well-groomed personality-an elegance reflected in the picture's polish, fluency, and pleasant interpolations of ballads and dances. With Mr. David Hutcheson lending excellent support as the hero's volatile friend, "The Sky's the Limit" has a fresh and breezy humor to keep it sailing merrily on a sparkling surface.
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