Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Crosby, a Yankee, lazily, dislikes gunplay, he declines to duel with a Southern blackguard. In the next few minutes he loses his fiancee, excites the love of her sister (Joan Bennett), is summarily ousted from the plantation of their father. He joins a show boat run by Fields, a Mississippi River commodore who claims to have been an oldtime Indian fighter. When Crosby succeeds in publicly mauling and accidentally shooting a bully, Fields improvises a few lies, turns the crooner into "The Notorious Col. Steele, the Singing Killer...
...Varsity boat are as follows: stroke, Samuel S. Drury, Jr. '35; 7, Leonard P. Eliel '36; 6, Edward B. Simmons '37; 5, Thomas H. Choate '37; 4, James E. Gardner '36; 3, Henry Saltonstall '35; 2, John P. Austin '37; bow, Raymond S. Clark '36; and cox, Edward H. Bennett...
...sing and move about harmlessly. These he does to the satisfaction and enjoyment of all. The humorous element of the film is well carried on the capable shoulders of Mr. Fields, who is at his best as the blustering show-boat captain, boasting continually about his bravery. Joan Bennett is adequate in her role as the leading lady...
Constance Bennett is most decidedly "after office hours" in this picture. Indeed only once is she to be found in office hours and then in the act of being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation...
...like Constance Bennett or Clark Gable or light amusement you will enjoy this picture, it does not offend the Catholic League of Decency or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...