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...type multi-colored Navy bombers, fighters and patrol ships continuously roar down the sound track, in and out of formation. All's well with today's Navy-save one thing: Flyers Flynn and MacMurray are so absorbed in their work that they let big, blonde, beauteous Alexis Smith, the heroine of the picture, wander off in the end with the Marines...
Seven years ago Lady Diana and some friends formed a company to sell the gravel from the beach in front of her summer place at Bognor Regis on England's south coast. There beauteous Lady Diana slopped the hogs, kept two swarms of bees, tended two goats, 30 chickens, milked The Princess (a cow). "The Princess is such a lovely cow," said she. "I simply adore her. And she gives so much good milk...
Before World War II's outbreak, the Duke of Kent was known in Britain as a driver of fast cars, an eager nightclub patron (he plays quite good jazz piano), the husband of beauteous, peacock-proud Princess Marina of Greece. But since the war he has settled down, worked hard at his job. Side trip: he will go to Hyde Park on Aug. 23 to visit President Roosevelt. Denied: that he will see the Windsors, who, it was reported, would soon visit their ranch at High River, 35 miles south of Calgary, Alberta...
This hoary plot blossoms like a star shell after the beauteous pair escape to Hong Kong with their love and the Star of Asia. There Mr. Gable dons an army captain's uniform to rob a Chinese, only to find himself inadvertently evacuating British nationals from a city beleaguered by the Japanese. Amid a multitude of jabbering Japanese, sheet-iron tanks and other M.G.M. props, versatile Captain Gable, singlehanded, routs the invaders. Having exhausted the possibilities of the summer's foremost cinematic absurdity, Bombay swiftly rewards its wounded hero and dispatches him to prison (to pay the Hays...
This bit of tomfoolery manages to be engaging and downright funny in spots. Beauteous Miss Carroll's virginal retreats from the ruttish advances of her pursuer are performed in her best peaches & cream manner. But the script seldom rises above its morass of cliches, damp gags, trite situations, and occasional touches of propaganda. Mr. MacMurray's noisome conception of a vigorous American is on:: that most Americans would like to keep tied up in the backyard...