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Less can be said of Dive Bomber's plot. Elegant Errol Flynn goes about a flight surgeon's business of keeping the boys flying with genteel unreality. Belligerent Fred MacMurray, ace pilot, eventually sees the light and helps the surgeon design a high altitude pressure suit which costs MacMurray his life...
...flying an aviation cinemaddict can take at one sitting. Fleets of new and old-type multi-colored Navy bombers, fighters and patrol ships continuously roar down the sound track, in and out of formation. All's well with today's Navy-save one thing: Flyers Flynn and MacMurray are so absorbed in their work that they let big, blonde, beauteous Alexis Smith, the heroine of the picture, wander off in the end with the Marines...
Warned that MacMurray is a "Disturbing fellow. Upset you, in the end," she nonetheless consents to fly to Lisbon with him. Says she: "I knew he loved me the minute he told me I smelled good." Plane seats for this clandestine journey are miraculously proffered by the Earl after she remarks: "I'm only going to be there overnight." Observes he: "That ought...
What he meant was that the documents planted in her luggage ought to succeed in trapping a ring of Nazi spies operating in Lisbon. They not only trap the spies but also ruin the loving couple's tryst. Whereupon, Miss Carroll and Mr. MacMurray, with the entire British Navy serving as shotgun, take off for the U.S. and marriage...
...engaging and downright funny in spots. Beauteous Miss Carroll's virginal retreats from the ruttish advances of her pursuer are performed in her best peaches & cream manner. But the script seldom rises above its morass of cliches, damp gags, trite situations, and occasional touches of propaganda. Mr. MacMurray's noisome conception of a vigorous American is on:: that most Americans would like to keep tied up in the backyard...