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Discarding the Hollywood leer in its attitude toward sex. "Children of Paradise" is refreshing in its humorous frankness. The characters, all well-acted, reach three-dimensionality through a characteristically French depth and intensity of emotion. The tenuousness of the plot is also increased by the cutting, which leaves the motivation for the climax a little too thin to be convincing...
...descends to either the crudest of slapstick or aged witticisms of the "who was that lady I saw you with last night" ilk. But Hope seems to have the uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They insist, however, upon ending it up with the customary finale for all Bob Hope pictures, and dragging out a well-known Paramount extra...
...those plump, shiny comedies that Director Mitchell Leisen can pack-and Paramount can crank out-like so many frankfurters. Items: 1) the leading characters, most of whom are presented as nice people, go through their romancing about as honorably as so many rutting hyenas; 2) by glance, leer, double-take and triple-talk, the audience is continually nudged with strong suggestions of amorous hanky-panky; 3) all the bedroom-eyeing is technically codeproof because the two chief romancers are married...
...first newspaper in America came out in Boston Sept. 25, 1690, and was slapped down the same day. It was banned by Governor Simon Bradstreet for want of a license, and for an unseemly leer at Louis XIV of France ("If reports be true," gossiped Editor Ben Harris, "[he] used to sleep with the Sons Wife...
...analyzed the lure. It ought to be sex, but one visit makes that doubtful. Whatever it is, Harvard-men meet with Boston on common ground at the Old Howard--leer almost as luridly at the flesh as do the natives, shudder with them at the chorus, and blush a slightly darker shade of pink at the comedians...