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...Sergeant Bing's home town (street fighting, the establishment of a civilian administration, the recapture of the town by the Nazis and the hanging of the American-appointed mayor); through the occupation of Kremmen (pop. 200,000), with Loomis and Willoughby falling into the clutches of a Marlene Dietrich-like vampire in whose arms they find bliss never known at home...
Dividends. In Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Hudson Robinson cut open a fish, found the earring she had lost two years ago at a fish hatchery. In Lancaster, Pa., Fisherman Cyrus Dietrich pulled in his line, found a five-dollar bill on his hook...
...highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere candy-box-top prettiness. Even her intensively publicized legs (immortalized in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with Gable's ears and Barrymore's profile) cannot compare in symmetry to Dietrich...
Jean Arthur, a visiting Congresswoman is flabbergasted to find John Lund, an American captain, fraternizing with Marlene Dietrich, the ex-mistress of a fugitive top Nazi. As bad or worse, Miss Dietrich is going around scot free; she is even singing in a nightclub. Millard Mitchell, a levelheaded, wisecracking colonel, does his best to calm Miss Arthur down; but since she is falling for Captain Lund, she doesn't calm easily. At long last she comes to realize that the Army always has its reasons: Miss Dietrich is being used to smoke her jealous Nazi lover out of hiding...
...Miss Dietrich, at her best, is a past mistress of sardonic comedy and of low-life glamor, and if this picture really handled what it pretends to, she could probably have done herself proud; instead, she is required to sing such pseudo-bitter cabaret ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur used to have a nice knack for comedy; now & then it still clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky...