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...milieu of their revue is France-a France where every woman is involved with three lovers, where Marie Antoinette receives in a small park of a bed, and where French Nightclub Singer Denise Darcel talks carefully broken English. There are a good many indistinguishable songs and dances, and now & then there is a refreshing change from sex to seasickness or sanitation. The revue also shows its ancestry at moments by having people climb into boxes or letting feathers fall from the roof. Out of it all emerges one pleasant dance number about snow men, and one entertaining number requiring...
...style, mordantly gripe and gibe at each other. That fixture of war movies, the rookie (Marshall Thompson) with the Mother's Boy face and a frightened desire to please the grownups, turns up in the first scene; not long after, enters the friendly, lushly curved peasant girl (Denise Darcel). And so the show goes its well-worn way until the last survivors, about to be chopped to bits by the enemy, see the sky blossom with Allied planes...