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...Hour of 13 (MGM) casts Peter Lawford as a Raffle-ish amateur cracksman who steals both outsize emeralds and ladies' hearts. Lawford has to interrupt these interesting pursuits temporarily when the police suspect him of being the Terror, a nasty fellow who slinks about skewering London bobbies on a three-foot sword. Disguising himself as a bobby, Lawford gives Scotland Yard an invaluable assist in tracking down the Terror, thereby further endearing himself to the police commissioner's beautiful daughter (Dawn Addams), whom he has already captivated with such gems of repartee as: "I think if a jewel...
Unfortunately, the trip was not necessary for a plot that is homegrown Hollywood, a handsome bushranger (Peter Lawford), who is wanted by the police, poses as Rancher Finlay Currie's long-lost son. But when Lawford finds that he has an unbrotherly affection for Currie's red-haired daughter (Maureen O'Hara), he owns up to his real identity, with the result that both love and justice come out on top Down Under...
...whole dreadful business comes to an epic climax in another fine scene in which cad Boone and bounder Peter Lawford fight it out with bullwhips, while on a crag high above them, the bush bobby stands like an ibex and dispassionately sees that justice is done...
...plot these two must work with is at best ordinary. It concerns a brother and sister team which goes to London for a show amidst the excitement of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. While there, Miss Powell inexplicably falls in love with Peter Lawford who plays a British nobleman. Lawford only proves anew that he just cannot act, even in his native surroundings. Meanwhile, the other half of the team, Fred Astaire, interrupts his dancing long enough to go romantic with Sarah Churchill, who is making her much-heralded debut in American movies. Keenan 'Wynn in the double role...
...Astaire and his sister-partner (Jane Powell) are musicomedy favorites who dabble in an occasional romance, but shun matrimony on the theory that they owe themselves exclusively to their joint career. When they go to London to do a show, romance pairs Jane with a young peer (Peter Lawford) and Fred with a chorus girl (competently played by Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah...