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Sturges takes far too much film footage setting the stage for his gag. Rex Harrison is an aging, temperamental and gabby symphony conductor. He is madly in love with his beautiful young wife (Linda Darnell), but he begins to suspect her, unjustly, of carrying on with his handsome young secretary (Kurt Kreuger). Brooding over his jealousy as he conducts a concert (Rossini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky), he imagines himself solving his domestic triangle in three different ways: 1) by murder, 2) by generosity to the young "lovers," and 3) by suicide...
Producer Joe Pasternak was wise enough not to ride this little gag too hard. He has allowed time for enough moon-spoon-swoon songs to please the most ardent Sinatra fans. Kathryn Grayson occasionally joins in, and gives the love lyrics a wholesome quality of antiseptic passion...
...success. Betty Grable is there to show off her pretty ankles and sing some nice tunes. Dan Dailey figures to de-emphasize Miss Grable's mediocre dancing with his own slick routines. The supporting cast of June Havoc, Jack Oakie, and James Gleason couldn't be any better. Gag specialists have written a few high-voltage boffs into the script and the whole thing is packaged in some real nice technicolor. These are the merits. In spots they give the picture color and vitality. Where it falls horribly flat is in the story and in the overburden placed...
...same gag, turned now against the Communist big shots, had been chortled over many times in Central Europe in the early part of this century, when it was told to describe the future of emigrants to the capitalistic...
...Gootenberg '49, president of the Liberal Union, said he thought it was a gag. "They are a lunatic fringe," Gootenberg opined, "that doesn't represent Harvard opinion any more than the HYD does." He added, however, that "any new group that works in the open" is a healthy sign...