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Radio fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
...plot is, as usual, the least important of the ingredients. Instead, the subtle wit at which William Powell and Myrna Loy have become past masters serves to spice up a thoroughly amusing film. And even their happy marriage is still as palatable to audiences as it ever...
...Shadow, the same couple, Nick & Nora Charles (William Powell & Myrna Loy), are still married, still in love, but the pace, bounce, snappy dialogue, the old fillip of murder and of amiable dipsomania have given way to resigned indigestion and middle age. Even Asta, their renowned beerhound who suffers nervous breakdowns, can pass a fire hydrant now without so much as an inquiring sniff...
Shadow tries hard to make exciting capital out of Private Detective Nick Charles's solution of the deaths of a jockey, a blackmailing reporter and a racetrack tout, occasionally succeeds, more often falls flat on its formula. Actors Powell & Loy do not try as hard as the rest, appear to be just going through the paces. Result: a typed who-done...
...McCormick's shadow. In his 24th-floor office in the $18,000,000 Gothic Tribune Tower the Colonel runs the Tribune strictly according to his, and nobody else's, whims, fancies, prejudices. From his red-&-white marble desk runs a direct wire to Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney. Over it all day the Colonel feeds his ideas. His story suggestions go forth initialed "R.R.McC.", meaning that they get into the Tribune for sure, and generally page...