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...envoy and various Gestapo chiefs. Miss Lombard plays with consummate skill, warmth and humor. One forgets this is her last role, so compelling and captivating is her performance. The supporting cast is tops, particularly Felix Bressart, as a frustrated spear carrier, who dreams of playing Shylock; and Tom Dugan who turns in a wonderfully ludicrous impersonation of Hitler...
...cheering section in a major-league ball park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...
Both for entertainment value and artistic achievement, "The Trial of Mary Dugan" is by far a superior movie. Robert Young and Laraine Day are superb as lawyer and suspect respectively, in a production that mixes love, mystery and a murder-trial in excellent proportions. Aided by fine dialogue and skilled direction, this picture clearly contrasts the glaring defects of "Penny Serenade...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a re-make and a prissy fumigation of Bayard Veiller's famed courtroom drama which in 1929 became Norma Shearer's first all-talking picture. Mary Dugan this time is pretty young Laraine Day (of the Doctor Kildare series), whom M. G. M. is building toward the Big Time. And Mary Dugan this time isn't a girl who has become a kept woman to help her brother get educated. She is a virgin stenographer. Many other changes have been made to produce the morality play-which badly drags...
...play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...