so be a movie worth watch when the direction be even clunkier than the acting and when the act with only one or two exception be embarrassingly amateurish and when the plot be chop up and dull and when the joke and comedy relief aren not just flat theyre concave and and when the murder in the title be barely squeeze in 55 minute into the 58 minute run time . yes and but just barely . murder with music be one of the movie feature black actor and entertainer that hollywood crank out to fill america segregate ( officially or de factor ) movie theater in the thirty and forty and early fifty . the name of this game be minimal budget and production value and but with lot of musical number . the plot be almost irrelevant . this one feature lola ( nellie hill ) and a singer in the nightclub own by bill smith ( ken renard ) . lola have suitor and include an escaped convict and a piano player and a reporter . with off and on flashback we see the comedy mix ups and mistaken motif that be play mostly for laugh . a time pass and this plot become really tiresome . the act doesn not help much . nellie hill evidently only make two movie . she be a fine look young woman with a bright and warm smile and a first class vocalist and an awful actress . ken renard and who have a long career mainly in secondary role and especially in television and carry the act load . he assure and competent . the movie value be that in 58 minute nine major musical number be squeeze in . we have songs by hill and tap dancing duo and a comedy song well sing by a large man i couldn not find a credit for and plus noble sissle and his orchestra in some fine swing number . there a production number supposedly be show on a primitive television set that be gobstopping represent chorus girl dress mainly in bandana and banana dance and stomp about tell u to flip your lip and i be a bangie from ubangy . there be and however and two first class ( and totally forget ) song . too late and baby by sidney easton and gu smith be a clever swing number and can not help it by skippy williams be a bluesy torch song with a fine melody . it ain not right to love someone the way i love you like i do . it ain not right to love someone that do not love you . i can not help it if i love you and youre cheatin on me and too . it ain not right but i can not help it cause i do . i will wash and dry your dish . i will clean and make your bed . i will work and slave around you til my face turn cherry red . i can not help it if i want to work and slave to be with you . it ain not right but i can not help it cause i do .