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MacMurray & Crawford are an American and his bride in prewar Germany, but not on anything so innocent as a honeymoon. In quest of a secret which Great Britain needs to know they get involved in disguises, a Liszt-accompanied murder, battles with the Gestapo. They also run afoul of such suspicious figures as Basil Rathbone and Conrad Veidt. Strangely enough, it all adds up to a better-than-average summertime melodrama...
...prim New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March) ran afoul of a witch (Veronica Lake) in a hayloft and had her and her supernatural father (Cecil Kellaway) burned alive and buried, for safekeeping, under the roots of an oak. The doomed witch cursed him and his male issue with disaster in love. The curse holds better & better in 1770, 1861, and 1904 (Fredric March, Fredric March and Fredric March). It looks even more propitious when, on a stormy night in 1942, lightning rives the oak and sets father and daughter at liberty once more, as a talkative pair of fumes...
...page 94 (TIME, Oct 5) is a sum of "The Strange Case of J. H. Phillips." By veiled implication, "Dr. Phillips" is puffed as a very competent surgeon who had the misfortune to run afoul of the license laws in California. It is likewise stated that the "A.M.A. Journal printed [his record] with reluctant admiration...
During many of these escapades they ran afoul of "Colonel" Charles R. Apted, for many years kindly head of the Yard Cops, who was a personal friend of many well-known graduates. His experiences could fill a book--and nearly did; though the volume has never officially been published...
...anti-Fascist grandson, Pietro Spina, from the police. Recovered, he leaves her, joins his friends in another hideout. An informer forces them to move on. They do a little underground work. Pietro (he was also the hero of Bread and Wine, TIME, April 5, 1937) begins a romance, runs afoul of the authorities as the book ends...