Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace the familiar action. Without this the movie is a formless as a jellyfish and generates about the same interest. Joel McCrea portrays a sincere bank-robber who hoists 2,000 realm of New Mexican sandstone wishing to hell he hadn't taken the dough. He falls in love with a nice-looking girl, does a few good deeds, said turns himself in before things...
Second on the list of attractions is "Bad Sister," an English offering that ranks far below the usual foreign product. Margaret Lockwood and Joan Greenwood, two very nice-looking dames, take the audience to the Riveria and Finland on a pair of tragic love affairs. The high point comes in Finland where Miss Lockwood is serenaded by a high-frequencied soprano with a face like a bilious brook trout...
...Postmaster General who has risen from the ranks-a laudable appointment-finds himself harried by the demands of provincial politicians . . . Let us see ... if he will turn to Paul Sample, Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, and other greats, to give us designs depicting the American Scene which we love...
...something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily as if it were in today's headlines: "IRATE MATE SPRINGS LOVE TRAP--Wife and Lover Found Souped-up on Love Potion...
...will allow yourself the indulgence of some of Jean Cocteau's particular brand of photographic sensualness, which is the primary commodity of "The Eternal Return," you will probably have a big time. Otherwise, you may wish that Cocteau had never put the love potion in the medicine cabinet...