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Word: featherbrain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of his synthetic plot-which is still not quite enough. There are hints that the picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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