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Steinbeck's paisanos were shiftless, harmless, simple, brawling, wine-bibbing Mexican mixed-breeds; M.G.M.'s are purebreds Spencer Tracy, Frank Morgan, John Garfield, et al. It is hard for them to be paisanos, but Victor Fleming's eloquent direction produces many a memorable sequence from the formless, wandering story. His characters never become quaint, and their activities are generally human and appealing...
Most of Flat's plot is concerned with keeping Paisano Garfield from committing the unpardonable sin of marrying. This predicament would never have arisen if his grandfather had not died and bequeathed him two clapboard houses and a gold watch-a misfortune bemoaned by his indolent companions when they discover that a peach-skinned Portuguese named Hedy Lamarr has her dark eyes on their new-found wealth...
Paisano Tracy, who can outthink and outtalk his hot-headed young friend, manages to turn the timepiece into four jugs of wine and to reduce Garfield's marriageability by inadvertently burning down one of his inherited houses. But when the irascible, love-struck fellow actually accepts a job to prepare for his marriage, they know he is beyond recall. Their final philosophic gesture, done in sorrow, is to fire his remaining house while he is away honeymooning...
Although Paisanos Tracy, Garfield and others manage their somewhat talky roles with skill, they are snowed under by Comic Frank Morgan, playing straight as the Pirate, a filthy, bewhiskered, bedraggled old codger with five nondescript dogs and an oath to buy a gold candlestick to St. Francis, who once said to him: "Be good to dogs, you dirty man." He keeps his oath by hoarding "1,000 two-bitses," and in the process delivers as adroit and winning a performance as Hollywood has produced all season...
...Senatorial candidates: Reserve Captain Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts, now on "tour of duty" with the Army, who will conduct his autumn campaign in uniform; Lieut. Colonel Charles R. Dawley (Rep., Montana), now in Australia, who announced his candidacy for Senator James E. Murray's seat. Meanwhile Garfield, NJ. was in a turmoil. Mayor John M. Gabriel, a second lieutenant at Fort Eustis, Va., is trying to run the town by airmail...