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...Radio, is the third cinema which harum-scarum Scenarists Gene Towne and Graham Baker have put out on their own. A "streamlined film version" of Louisa May Alcott's novel about life at the Plumfield Farm Boarding School in the late 19th Century, the Polly -androus story would hardly be recognized by Louisa May. Most intrusive revision: the addition of a pair of slick sharpers called Major Burdle (George Bancroft) and Willie the Fox (Jack Oakie). A period piece as heavy as a Victorian sideboard, the picture is lit up, as by an occasional gas jet, by Oakie...
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