This is the only movie featuring popular bandleader Kay Kyser that I have ever seen, and having seen it I am not tempted to see another. Mister Kyser was a bandleader-comedian, a sort precursor of Spike Jones, but not so clever. I don't find his humor or that of his various sidekicks, like Ish Kabibble, the least bit funny. Kyser's ponderous line-readings are so inept as to make Lon Chaney, Jnr. sound like John Gielgud by comparison. He is literally embarrassing to listen to; and his band's music makes me cringe. Yet Kyser, for all his deficiencies, had his vogue, and was quite a radio star in the thirties and forties. For a while he was a movie star as well, though he never made it into the really big-time on screen.
You'll Find Out is an old dark house comedy-thriller along the lines of The Cat and the Canary, which had been filmed the previous year with Bob Hope, and was a big hit. This doubtless inspired some studio executives to make this vehicle for Kyser & Co. The old house itself is exceedingly well-designed, and I hope was preserved for posterity. Three of moviedom's most popular ghouls,--Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre--are given prominent billing, and in the trailers were featured as more important players in the film than they actually are. They are all wasted, as they are overwhelmed by the true horror of the film, it's star and his monumentally unfunny sidekicks.
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