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...Jane Powell). She smuggles fried chicken and mince pie into his cell, regales him by singing Small Towns Are Smile Towns, and sneaks him out of jail for a night on New York town. This does not please the playboy's fiancee, Dancing Star Ann Miller. By the fadeout the playboy's 30-day jail sentence has been commuted, and he has the judge's daughter for life. The movie's most striking feature: a dance routine in which leggy Ann Miller taps her way among a disembodied orchestra surrealistically imbedded in a musicomedy stage...
...Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about an American loan to Lichtenburg, but politics yields mostly to gags, pratfalls and love. By the fadeout, Madam Ambassador has not only won the Order of Lichtenburg (which entitles her to be called a Dame-a promotion from Madam), she has also won Lichtenburg's handsome Diplomat Sanders...
...Ashore (Columbia) is an amiable little cinemusical with pretty girls, Technicolored scenery, several jingly songs-and practically no screenplay. The slapdash script follows three sailors (Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Ray McDonald) through their shore leave at Catalina. By the fadeout, at a lavish Polynesian beach party, they have each found a girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls...
...Susan, Audie eventually 1) annihilates a group of real-estate operators who are trying to grab the ranch of Susan's father (Paul Kelly), 2) rounds up Kelly's cattle and drives them to market against obstacles, natural and otherwise, 3) clinches with Susan in a Technicolor fadeout. In its resolutely conventional blend of sagebrush and six-shooters, Gunsmoke manages not to violate in any detail the venerable horse-opera formula established by The Great Train Robbery 50 years...
...Star (Bert Friedlob; 20th Century-Fox) is a fading movie queen (Bette Davis) who is down to her last few dollars and her last several thousand tantrums. Washed up, and with only an old Oscar to keep her company, she tries unsuccessfully to make a movie comeback. The fadeout finds her happy in the realization that, although she is through as an actress, she has a great career ahead of her as a woman with an honest, simple boat mechanic (Sterling Hayden) who has loved her all along. Joyously, at the fadeout, she speeds to her man in her Cadillac...