Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crosby needles Astaire ("That'll be easy, like peeling a turtle"), makes sage love to the heroine (Marjorie Reynolds), ad libs at will, takes time out to kid one of his own recordings ("Sing it, sing it pretty!"). Two of the picture's best new songs (Berlin threw in Easter Parade and Lazy for good measure) are his: Abraham, a solid swing spiritual for Lincoln's birthday, and Let's Start the New Year Right, which does...
...Beyond the Blue Horizon" there lies a land of treacherous natives, mad elephants, tigers that swim, and a brilliantly beautiful jungle. It's the kind of a jungle that every kid explorer dreams about, but no real one sees with less than four zombies under his belt. If you can overlook this minor detail though, there are several other bits of humor that make this picture a sorry contrast to the recent run of heavy drama. Top billing goes to Dorothy Lamour and Richard Denning, both well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer...
Griffin is a graduate of Wisconsin-got his first break as a kid reporter when he helped convict a mild-mannered but bigamous itinerant preacher who had killed his extra wife, painstakingly disjointed her body and buried each piece separately. On the crest of this achievement, Griffin sailed for France, got a job on the Paris Times, was at Le Bourget when Lindbergh landed...
...There was nothing spectacular about him except his flying, and he wanted very little except to be fit and right for that. When he got leave he would got to London and his mother would ask Paddy's girl over from next-door-but-one, and if his kid brother got leave from the Bomber Command at the same time they would have a real party. He scarcely ever took a drink and did not smoke much...
...hopes to reduce the accident rate some 20 to 25% in the next year. But FSO's Colonel Harris puts his finger on the problem: "Take a kid full of vinegar and new flying skill, put a parachute on him and strap a shiny, powerful airplane on to him, and you have one of the finest combinations for trouble in the world...