Rotten Luck
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"Rotten Luck" is a song from the 1974 musical film, Huckleberry Finn based on the book by Mark Twain. It was sung by Gary Merrill playing the part of "Pap" as he traps his son, Huckleberry in a cabin. The entire song was filmed sans-sync except for the final line of the song in which we see Merrill look back at the cabin and say, "And now my luck... It ain't so bad!" The song was written by the Sherman Brothers.
[edit] Criticism of the direction
It is generally agreed that the unsynchronized direction of this musical number did not work very well and did not seem motivated or natural, much like the use of color filters in the 1958 musical film version of South Pacific.
[edit] Literary Sources
- Sherman, Robert B. Walt's Time: from before to beyond. Pages: 178-181, Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.
