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...Happened at the Inn (French counterpart of You Can't Take It with You; TIME...
...Happened at the Inn (French counterpart of You Can't Take It with You; TIME...
...with Sales. Last week North Conway was in the middle of its best season. The 250-bed Inn, where rates range up to a stiff $30 a day, had a waiting list of 2,000 names...
...Happened at the Inn (MGM International) is the first French movie made during the war to be shown in the U.S. A fantastic, melodramatic little comedy about a French provincial family named Goupi, the film hints broadly that beneath its sparkling surface lies an allegory. Just what the allegory is never becomes clear. But It Happened at the Inn is funny-in a subtler way than its American counterpart, You Can't Take It with You. The Goupis are a family of ferocious, mildly balmy individualists who squabble incessantly among themselves but present a miraculously united front...
...nearly so elaborately produced as some prewar French films (Story of a Cheat, Carnival in Flanders), It Happened at the Inn also lacks much of the expert, offhand humor of its nearest kin, The Baker's Wife. The new French humor has a hint of violence; there is violence, too, in the insistence on being funny. In the old French movies, you could take the jokes or leave them alone. In It Happened at the Inn, the humorous situations are of a sort you must either take or reject. U.S. audiences are likely to reject quite...