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...same old carcass--a saloon saga, no less, but without the equine and bovine props, without Dictrich, without even Sex, unless Gable bussing Turner during 30 long clinches demonstrates Love. To us it shows endurance,--on the audience's part. Besides, there is only one brief glimpse of Lana's limbs, and strangely enough, while all the other corny cliches are there, you won't find La Lana perching on the pianner as the boys in the background croon "Who Poured the Beer in Paddy's Coffin...
...hands. As Jekyll and Hyde, he proves his point about the portions of good and evil in the human system, but pays the supreme sacrifice for his presumption. With more than his ordinary zeal for a part, perhaps too much. Tracy nevertheless does a thoroughly good job. Lana Turner, as the love in his life, shows less of herself (than heretofore) and more acting ability than none at all (as heretofore.) In grid Bergman, however, is really good...
...Honky Tonk (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Lana Turner, as a blue-blooded Boston babe, joins the long line of lusty ladies (Jean Harlow, Hedy Lamarr, et al.) who have joyfully succumbed to the bat-eared charms of frog-voiced Clark Gable...
...luscious Lana Turner, this blissful ascent to stardom is not unlike a drastic year-end model change at General Motors. Not long ago the most that was asked of her was to wear a sweater fetchingly. Now M.G.M., after a slight build-up (fatter roles in Ziegfeld Girl and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), has demanded that she act as well as strut. She comes through surprisingly well, although the 1941 Turner may have to undergo a little more streamlining before she can hold the road at high speed...
Though Miss Turner's peaches-&-cream face is void of any marks of endeavor, she is discovered in a Western boom town. So is "Candy" Johnson (Mr. Gable), a gay con man who talks himself into and out of control of the frontier town. Although Lana is obviously overyoung to handle anyone of Actor Gable's ilk, she marries him (with reform in her eye) for better or worse. She gets worse and likes...