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...Dottie Lamour is at it again, fellows, sarong and all, making love to no less than two scantily clad Polynesians. This time technicolor adds its bit and helps to make the movie better than the rest of Dottie's gone-native series. Other factors that raise this above the ordinary are: a better than average story of tropic love, hate, and retribution; a good cast of supporting actors, especially Lynne Overman; and a very realistic sequence of the eruption of a volcano, fully as terrifying as the eruption in Fantasia's "Rites of Spring...
...Lamour has been named the "pin-up" girl of the Army and this picture tells why. Fortunately she sings only one song and, just for variety, has two people to make love at. One, the young chief to whom she is betrothed and who has just returned from Harvard (Harvard) to become chief of the islanders, is played by Jon Hall, rather dashingly, but not subtly. The other is the villain who covets Hall's throne as well as his betrothed. After an education in this institution, Hall finds life among his people a little perplexing and a lot more...
...Dorothy Lamour offered to write to any draftee whose number is 8962. ∽∽ Paramount urged a screen test on Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered...
Through three pictures, the lantern-jawed comic has made calf eyes at dusky Dorothy Lamour. Their effect on the sarongstress has led her to remark: "In Typhoon I had a chimpanzee. In Zanzibar I have Hope." This time he gets her-fully clad, for a change...
...swimming pools (one "last year's model"), star of He Kissed Her Twice and Bingo, Hope is cast as a craven, overpaid actor suffering from the approach of the draft. Marriage looks like his best out. but his selected victim, a colonel's daughter (Miss Lamour), suspects his intention. He stages a fake enlistment. It backfires him into the Army...