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Because of Him (Universal) is Hollywood whimsy of the more expensive sort. Deanna Durbin, silver-voiced and platinum-salaried ($326,491 for 1944, tops for cinemactresses), warbles her way through it with no perceptible embarrassment-which is more than can be said for Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone and other members of the cast...
...story: an oyster-bar waitress (Deanna) yearns for a stage career and dupes an eminent actor (Laughton) into signing a letter of recommendation while he is engrossed in an oyster stew. Eventually she is enfolded in the arms of handsome Playwright Tone. Among the intervening spectacles...
...Deanna's brilliant tactical lapse from her role of would-be dramatic actress: while visiting Laughton's bachelor apartment, she does a moist-eyed, full-throated, full-dress rendition of Danny...
Kidd (Charles Laughton) buries a treasure chest, sails a King's ship into Madagascar waters, knocks off a number of chiseling colleagues, and at long last gets the halter while young lovers Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton make for the altar. All this and more is accomplished without teeth-clenched daggers, plank-walkings, or hoistings of the Jolly Roger. But this new version has not enough energy and inventiveness to take the place of the old, dependable pirate-movie clich...
...Suspect (Charles Laughton, Ella Raines; TIME...