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Both Miss McGuire and her busty co-star overact. The former is cast as the daughter of a Long Island millionaire, a soft mouthed old gent portrayed by Louis Calhern with die-cut precision. Miss McGuire suffers from an incurable heart ailment, a part for which she is physically fitted. Her expression is one of such pain, however, that she might have been better cast as a girl correspondent shipwrecked in a leper colony...
...girl doomed to an early death from an incurable heart ailment, and her plight provides an opportunity for a pair of fortune hunters. When the film opens, Dorothy-unaware that she has only a few months to live-is being showered with expensive gifts by her grieving father, Louis Calhern, and with little attentions by her husband, Van Johnson. Between presents, everyone keeps telling her to lie down and take things easy...
...With a Cloak (MGM) is a slow but tolerable melodrama, set in 1848 Manhattan, about a velvet-gloved struggle between good & evil forces for the wealth of a dying reprobate (Louis Calhern). Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a sweet young thing sent from Paris by the old man's grandson, wants the money for the cause of the French Republic. His calculating housekeeper-mistress (Barbara Stanwyck) wants him to die in a hurry while she is still favored in his will...
Into this struggle steps a mysterious stranger (Joseph Gotten), courtly, penniless and alcoholic, a poet whose identity the film discloses at the fadeout. The good French girl and the evil housekeeper are rivals for his help, and he seems to waver between them. When Calhern dies, only Gotten has a clue to the whereabouts of a new will and the imagination to track it down...
...With a Cloak comes equipped vith engaging accessories: talented players, notably Actor Calhern, bright spots of drawing-room dialogue and the atmosphere of a period and locale seldom pictured on the screen. While distinguishing the movie from run-of-the-melodrama, these virtues do not quite offset the slackness and familiarity of its plot...