Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scars of an old would on his heart. He goes to Paris, where he sees his old house. He returns to England and goes to Yorkshire to rebuild some stables for the Duke of Tower. The Duke's wife--guess who she turns out to be--falls in love with him, and vice-versa. The duke walks in on them in her bedroom, pulls a gun, and gets killed as Cooper brains him with a chair, Cooper gets life in a prison on a bleak moor...
...love interest is supplied by Mary Hatcher as Hominy's daughter, and Danny School as a returned Air Force veteran. (One of Mr. Scholl's songs, in which he reminisces of his flying experiences, is called, believe it or not, "The Big Movie Show in the Sky." Typical line: "Its a funny feeling when you see St. Peter smile/And he says he's had a movie camera on you all the while.") The love situation is complicated when some of the disgruntled veterans put Easy Jones (Mr. Scholl) up to run against Hominy. However, as dishonest as Hominy...
...music by Robert Emmett Dolan and the lyrics of Johnny Mercer only seemed to be genuinely felicitous in a few numbers, notably in a yodeling song "They Talk a Different Language" and in "Love Me, Love My Dog." The direction of Paul Crabtree seemed to be striving for adolescent stage humor, such as having the men roll up their trousers to reveal garters, and allowing excessive mugging by the dancers, even to the extent of permitting one to feign illness and rush into the wings to vomit. Oh yes--there is a small girl in the show who re-unites...
Years later she wondered why "the mother who taught me what I know of tenderness and love and compassion taught me also the bleak rituals of keeping Negroes in their place." To think out and try to solve that problem, she has written Killers of the Dream, a red-hot Freudianized tract against racial segregation, which is certain to anger even more Southerners than her Strange Fruit...
This serving of true love on a technicolor platter, is just a little more than routine. Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, though uninspired, still show a high degree of polish and workmanship. And the same can be said of Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the picture. The latter is responsible for a few deft touches, but did little else to add artistic interest...