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...Reaper, ex-Governor of Texas, dies in a train for Monterrey, where his fiancée is waiting at the altar. Peter Bounty, sheriff, supervises detection en route, has a double murderer before arrival. Pretty good...
Though (for reasons unannounced) he failed his preliminary physical exams, Benson Ford, 21-year-old grandson of Henry Ford, was classified 1A by his Mount Clemens, Mich, board on a 2-to-1 vote in which his fiancée's uncle, Charles McNaughton, dissented...
...object almost for sympathy rather than dislike. He does two splendid bits: 1) when he handles a copy of the New Masses as though it were a bushmaster (see cut), and 2) when his emotions get the better of his rigidity and, standing ramrod straight, he tells his fiancée: "I love you." Unfortunately the finely conceived and acted doctor is surrounded by drama that wavers uncertainly between comedy and solemnity. The comedy, as often with Behrman, tends to be forced, brittle. The solemnity isn't pointed up. And Ina Claire, far from the glittering kind of role...
...letter to an unmarried expectant mother whose fiancé was killed in Poland, Deputy Führer Hess declared: "During war especially, which so often means death for the best men, every new life is of extraordinary importance. Hence, if young soldiers fall on behalf of the Fatherland who, for some reason or other, could not marry and who leave children behind, the State will take care of this national treasure...
Since his fiancée died of a badly diagnosed appendicitis, stern Surgeon Forster (Akim Tamiroff) has lived for science, not for sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour). An American brought up by Chinese, Audrey speaks English with a nursery-school singsong. Dr. Forster succeeds in breaking up their match in the interests of science, but he also breaks up Dr. Beaven, who sets out to hunt his Audrey among 450,000,000 warring Chinese...