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Thank Your Lucky Stars (Warner), the most crowded constellation Warner Bros, has ever assembled, surrounds Eddie Cantor with such newcomers to song & dance as Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan and Alexis Smith, who know their way around in this sort of work, help out. Veteran comics S. Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton help still more. But the picture is most amusing as a sort of glorified Amateur Night...
...Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias (pinch-hitting for Humphrey Bogart, who was scared to involve himself in so unrefined an act) yowling and prancing through a frenzied, nightmarish parody of The Dreamer and the whole hierarchy of "dream" songs...
There were gags of all nations. Hope joshed the British: "Churchill certainly travels; he's been in Casablanca more than Humphrey Bogart." He ragged the Scots: "That blackout's wonderful; you should see the Scotchmen running around developing film." The real show, however, was for the Yanks, and he knew what they wanted: "Were the soldiers at the last camp happy to see me! They actually got down on their knees. What a spectacle! What a tribute! What a crap game...
Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) is a celluloid glorification of the U.S. merchant marine. To accomplish its business, it signs on First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night...
...Atlantic convoy, Murmansk-bound. Attacked in mid-ocean by a fleet of German submarines, the ship leaves the convoy, but is trailed by one of the U-boats, runs under some Nazi bombers, is finally torpedoed by the dogging sub. Acting as captain in place of the wounded Massey, Bogart sets fire to his own decks, pretends to abandon ship, makes the Germans come to the surface, then rams and sinks them. The freighter limps into port with cargo intact...