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John Forsythe looks like Fonda, speaks with Fonda's flat drawl, and apparently lacks only experience to handle his part as well as Fonda. He underplays throughout, as he must to keep the popular Lieutenant from appearing mawkish; he carries the long, slow opening scenes with easy competence...
...consequently divides his time between two different ones. With the exception of a fine "mad" scene climaxed by an car-shattering scream, Miss Stone also has trouble giving credibility to her part. This is especially apparent because she has chosen to do the whole thing in a deep Texas drawl which is neither convincing nor natural. Jack Warden, the only leftover from the original repertory production, is about as convincing a Texas cafe owner as a New York cab driver might have been in the same role...
...England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry Hull's rich mint-julep accent served up as a deep-dish Yankee drawl...
...White Sox and who comes up to the plate, sometimes limping, as if he had been called on to move a locomotive with a crowbar. The name of this apparition is Lucius Benjamin ("Luke") Appling. Droopy Luke spits a casual stream of tobacco juice, chats in a friendly Southern drawl with the umpire and opposing catcher, and usually complains that he is feeling just terrible. His symptoms may range from an upset stomach to "double vision." Once after a ferryboat ride, he dolefully announced he was seasick...
Tall, shapely Brenda Allen had just about everything a girl needed to become a successful prostitute. A teetotaler with a hint of Southern drawl, she had a mind like a cash register, and she hadn't been in love since she was 21 (about 15 years ago by latest reckoning). For all of that, Brenda had a little trouble getting along. Every year or so she found herself in a brush with the law for practicing her profession...