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...blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot to remove their underwear. Coach Dyke Raese is a dead ringer for Hollywood's Humphrey Bogart...
...Scandal" is in the familiar pattern of sophisticated dialogue comedy; "Rise and Shine" recalls the Joe College musicals of several years ago. Yet both move along briskly, boast a few new twists, and are unpretentiously slap-happy--a pleasant relief from war bulletins and the topheavy sagas of Bogart, Scott or Lynn vs. the entire Gestapo...
...Humphrey Bogart, as tough and suave as ever, plays the part of a Broadway gambler who stumbles into a Fifth-Column outfit, picks up a political consciousness and a good-looking refugee while he's at it, and winds up by doing his bit for national defense. Conrad Veidt is adequately sinister as the Nazi leader, but it's Peter Lorre who rings the bell again as the screen's number one menace. Without saying much, he manages to glide on and off the scene with a minimum of effort and a maximum of good solid horror...
...this picture Bogart, though his profession as a big-shot gambler is not the most honorable vocation, is a likeable person who is unjustly accused of murder. With the police hot on his trail, he manages to clear himself, catch a ring of German spies, and acquire a beautiful girl in the bargain. The plot is fast-moving and is aided by a witty and rapid-firing script; sometimes, in fact, the dialogue moves so rapidly that some very clever remarks pass unnoticed by the audience...
...Brophy carry out their stooge roles to perfection. Kaaren Vernie is not as glamorous as she might be, but her acting is all that could be desired, and beauty is not a requisite in this picture, as the love interest is kept at a minimum. All in all, Mr. Bogart, the director, the script-writers, and the supporting characters have turned out an excellent picture...