say it with song be the first all talk film that al jolson do on initial warner brother contract and for him the first flop in his hollywood career . you can not say that the brother warner do not follow the usual hollywood formula in that if something succeed and copy it a best you can . jolson have score well with his second film the singing fool and his singing of sonny boy to four year old davey lee be the big hit . what to do and team them again and you even get the crack songwriting team of desylva and brown and henderson to write this score as well . except for the song little pal none of the other song have any lasting stay power from say it with song . little pal do become a jolson standard though not to the same degree a sonny boy . but the score be serviceable for the plot which have jolson a a radio singer . be a radio singer obviate the need for jolson usual blackface persona . say it with song become the first of two film he do without the blackface and a fact i hadn not know before . i have assume and i would see it write that hallelujah and i be a bum be the only film he do without the blackface . more the pity here because if say it with song have be a hit jolson might have abandon the burnt cork and his historic reputation wouldn not have suffer so . the plot have jolson a happy go lucky radio singer who unfortunately like to drink and gamble and generally carouse . a wolfish radio manager have some design on wife marian nixon and offer her an indecent proposal . when jolie hears of it he kill him when he hit the wolf just a little too hard and his head strike a cement curb . that land him in jail . marian nixon have to support herself and go to work for a doctor who always have an eye on her as well . of course when jolie hear about in prison he all for it and but not for her take up their kid as well . jolie get one of the early parole in penal history and even for what probably be a manslaughter 2 conviction because little davey lee age not a bit . but little davey also get himself hit by a car while chase his dad . davey become paralyzed and what jolie to do . by coincidence the doctor be a specialist and he offer jolie the indecent proposal this time . i think with the general description of this plot you get the idea of the general mawkishness of the plot . director lloyd bacon doesn not try to control jolson incredible overact for the camera . those two factor be what mainly sink the film . yet jolson dynamism a an entertainer still shin through and when he sing you almost forget about the plot . almost that be .