Word: cancan
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...most of them in wheel chairs or on crutches, canes and artificial legs. Guffawing noisily and applauding wildly, they found the show very taking and apparently therapeutic. To outsiders, however, Grand Lawsony was so grim and painful at times that it seemed more like Grand Guignol. After an opening cancan by Red Cross nurses, the show shifted to a foxhole where a one-armed G.I. dubbed Manny Tomville dreams of ordering "breakfast and a blonde to match," is rewarded with pirouetting amputees dressed as girls. Other scenes...
...landlady (Sara Allgood) when he turns the pictures in his room against the walls. They are all pictures of actresses. The landlady's niece (Merle Oberon) is also an actress; she delights the habitues of London's late 19th Century music halls with her dilutions of the cancan. She wants to divert her aunt's shy lodger too. He is diverted so violently that everybody suddenly realizes that he is Jack the Ripper, the author of the series of murders then terrifying London...
...film more memorable as a museum piece than as a hair-raiser. As a result, several excellent performances, notably those of Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke (as the landlord), Sara Allgood and Merle Oberon, are not as exciting as they should be. Exciting enough is Miss Oberon's cancan (see cut). Notable exception to the general thrillessness is Doris Lloyd as she backs up, shaking and gasping, while the camera, personifying the Ripper, saunters jaggedly toward her into a tremendous close-up of total fear...
...most enticing of postwar vistas, the most alcoholic of Beverage Plans. And it is simplicity itself. No futuristic dream, Rose's postwar world is merely the good old days. Beginning with a riotous "Night of Unconditional Surrender," it shows a restored Gay Paree of foamy-petticoated cancan dancers; a restored lustige Wien waltzing to Lehar and Strauss; a melodious potpourri of old Jerome Kern tunes. Last comes a Victory Ball attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin. Making up in jubilation for what it lacks in taste, Rose's version of the Four Freedoms is four...
...first half of the show, laid in a canteen, moves fast with sentiment, boogie-woogie, corn with butter and salt, corn without them, a male cancan, a brass-hat quartet, which warbles...