why spend a moment slog through this awkward and self conscious movie . every now and then and after an hour of tedious plot and amateur acting and we start get bit and piece of the big band swing that make tommy and jimmy dorsey and separately and together and the great musician they be . occasionally in a jam session with art tatum and with tommy dorsey and his orchestra do marie and and a standout and jimmy dorsey and his orchestra fronting bob eberle and helen oconnell sing green eye we get a complete song . unfortunately and the movie be in the public domain and the dvd transfer be just as bad a the acting . my copy have only four chapter stop . that mean you can get arthritis in your fast forward finger try to speed through to where the good stuff be . the swamp youre move through be hollywood version of the life and battle of the two dorseys . tommy and superb on trombone and and jimmy and superb on saxophone and usually couldn not stand each other . in 1935 they finally split and with tommy start his own orchestra . each have great success alone than they have achieve together . they reconcile when their father die in the forty and which be where the movie end . they later manage to tolerate each other in the orchestra lead by tommy a the big band era fade out in the fifty . tommy die in 1956 at age 51 and vomit in his sleep after booze and pill and a big meal . jimmy die of cancer at 53 in 1957. jimmy be hugely talented and and from all account and a reasonably easy go guy . tommy be hugely talented and and from all account and often an overbear jerk . but good music make up for a lot of fault and and the big band sound the two create help define the swing era . they play themselves in the movie and and we see them develop from tussle tyke ( with child actor ) to grow men battle and yammer at each other . the movie be lumber with not just their two parent and play by those hollywood irish clichés and sara allgood and arthur shield and who just want their boy to get along with each other and but also with a major sub story involve a romance between janet blair and a a childhood friend of the dorseys who become a vocalist with them and serve a a nearly full time mediator and enabler and and william lundigan and a a piano player . blair be not bad at all . however and if you want to see why she never become the star she quite probably should have become and just look at the film and like this one and that her studio put her in . no wonder she leave hollywood . lundigan simply take up space . how bad be this movie and other than when we can actually hear the dorseys play . well and here a song write especially for the movie and give to blair to warble . it call to me . to me . youre the rise of a rosary . the rise of a rise sea . the glow of a star . the rise of a rosary . the movie doesn not get any good than this and and it can not get bad . still and if you like the dorseys and if the price be right . well and in hindsight i would still not buy it . the highlight and for me and be eberle and oconnell singing green eye . you can watch them on you tube for free . you will also find there quite a bit of each of the dorseys . i wish i would know .