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Twentieth Century has been considerably disturbed because Sal's big secret leaked out: Rita Hayworth's Grade-A singing voice belongs to Radio Songstress Nan Wynn. Fortunately for all concerned, the voice sounds like Rita. And no pseudonymous voice ever had a more attractive sponsor...
What Reap hasn't got is what it takes, which money can't buy. This so-called saga of the seafaring U.S. of 1840 is seldom credible, only occasionally exciting. It has its moments (some Grade-A brawling, excellent underwater photography, an occasional astonishing set), but they are inadequate substitutes for real characters and a good story. The story itself is the successful fight of shipowners to break up a gang of salvage pirates among the Florida keys. Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from...
This brief fantasy is keyed to a novel background score performed by a 50-piece symphony orchestra, to some Grade-A Negro choraling of Short'nin' Bread and Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen, and to some very solid jive. The result is a colorful, intriguing, three-dimensional cartoon whose smooth animation is the result of a considerable and clever technique...
...first baseball game. She sits in the press box, observing that it is silly for her paper to have two men to cover a game when it has only one man in Vichy. For anyone remotely familiar with baseball, her painful introduction to America's favorite sport is Grade-A comedy...
These virtues have not earned Director Wood, now 58, an Academy award; neither have his pictures. But if a Hollywood executive were confronted with the dread fact of having to turn out at one try a Grade-A, sure-fire hit, he would almost inevitably turn to the tall, dignified, soft-spoken man who has been quietly making excellent pictures* for the last 26 years...