Word: lockhart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though plain cinemaddicts may find this polished continentalism a little arch and precious, it will pay off even for all in two trick climaxes: a fight-to-the-death on a be-tinseled carrousel, and a scene in which a jealous husband (Gene Lockhart) tragicomically goes bats while, strapped to his back, scores of caged birds strike up a frenzy of alarmed song...
Against the Palestine Government, are arrayed 17 of Abdul's heirs. They are solidly backed by such solid Britons as Sir Malcolm Stewart of the Federation of British Industries and Colonel Beresford Lockhart-Jervis of Malaysiam...
...hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky shoes; 3) frustrate and reform a family tyrant (Gene Lockhart); 4) try to explain to his own widow (June Vincent) that the "dark lady" (Karen Randle) he walked off with, some 18 years before, was no lady, but the Angel of Death...
...heaviest-Gene Lockhart and Andy Devine acting like boys of eight-the fantasy is both unfunny and mawkish. At its best-a flock of ancient socialites helplessly jiving Wagner's Evening Star-it has a weird, wild, death-dance vitality which shows how tame most deliberate surrealism...
...life to thwart the dastardly inspector; the professor's pretty daughter (Anna Lee) who gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom by her fiancé (Dennis O'Keefe); and a local quisling (Gene Lockhart) whose double framing as both Heydrich's and the inspector's assassin solves two dilemmas with one bold stroke. Director Lang tells this story with real suspense, but seldom warms it with genuine emotion...