An amusing entertainment.

| May 12, 2021

The piece is fast and because of clever acting, humorous in spots. But the average observer doesn't find wholesale inebriation an amusing sight -- and this film specializes in scenes depicting imbibers before, after, and while taking.

| Jan 4, 2021

Its humor is not gentle nor its lines polite, but it is so badly funny and true to its theme that despite Its frequent roughness there is nothing to do but loin the laugh parade and enjoy Its wildness to the end.

| Jan 4, 2021

Too much happens in Convention City to be recorded here. Let it merely be said that a perfectly chosen cast keeps things bubbling with mirth at all points.

| Jan 4, 2021

Archie Mayo, the director, establishes an almost unbelievably furious tempo at the outset and the cast never lets him down.

| Jan 4, 2021

It ias all a lot of fun if you like seeing the same old faces in the same old predicaments.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 4, 2021

The show is predominantly geared for laughter, yet it offers novel romance and a little light drama. Every one of the players is a character study and every separate bit of entertainment is a source of new interest.

| Jan 4, 2021

The novel plot deftly covers a dozen different stories. And every one is filled with glamour, excitement and hilarious surprises.

| Jan 4, 2021

All of the above and more of the same are presented in such a ridiculous, but at bottom faithful, light that Convention City, while possibly over the heads of the casual mob, should delight the critical and the discriminating no end.

| Jan 4, 2021

One of the funniest pictures of the year.

| Jan 4, 2021

The feature picture is highly entertaining it is Convention City and contains a cast of funsters that will keep you smiling most of the time and laughing out loud often.

| Jan 4, 2021

One of the most hilarious scenes is provided by Frank McHugh and Hugh Herbert, In which they get themselves happily and helplessly "lit," and there are others sufficiently bright to make Convention City a sprightly affair.

| Jan 4, 2021

An imposing cast, including Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell and Frank McHugh, fails to save it from being just so-so entertainment.

| Jan 4, 2021

In the numerous assemblage, all the actors perform in characteristic style, Miss Astor perhaps impressing exceptionally by her brisk delineation of a saleswoman.

| Jan 4, 2021

It is a hilarious film chockful of laughs.

| Jan 4, 2021

The laughs are fast and raucous. Every part is a good one and every performer Is working at top speed.

| Jan 4, 2021

[Convention City] sets a fast and furious pace at the start -- and never slackens for an instant during the entire film.

| Dec 30, 2020

It's so funny you'll scream.

| Jul 28, 2020

With a name cast as long as your arm, including plenty of comedy talent, plus a continuity and direction that propel the action at a springy gait, there is something doing all the time, and mixed in with the farce are a couple of romances.

| Jul 28, 2020

This comedy is uproariously funny but rough, bordering at times on the risque; it is good entertainment for adults who are not squeamish.

| Jul 8, 2020