Busby Berkeley, gorging himself on candy colors, marshals several massive assaults against the human sense of proportion and propriety: an elaborate, disorienting crane shot to kick off the movie with an Ugly American nightclub salute to Brazil, land of coffee beans and the samba; a Carmen Miranda production number, "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat," which is overrun with chorus girls embracing Brobdingnagian bananas; and a knockout finale, with spots swimming before your eyes, entitled "The Polka Dot Polka." In between onslaughts, the merely human actors are asked to push a very cheap brand of comedy, and they push it with such enthusiasm that the tone of cheerful irrationality hardly wavers throughout. Alice Faye, James Ellison, Eugene Pallette, Edward Everett Horton. (1943) — Duncan Shepherd