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...Archibald Bulloch was "President and Com mander in Chief" of Georgia from...
Worse than Germany. Lieut. General Barney Giles, new Army Air Force com- mander in the Pacific predicted more bombs for Japan's 148,000 square miles than had fallen on Germany...
...date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds him alternate Scotch and scorn, and the elderly, harmless...
...Widow Bainter takes refuge in dignified solitude with the Clivedenish family doctor (Miles Mander) and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, but the boardinghouse brogue of her son-in-law's Irish mother (Sara Allgood), her daughter's expected baby, her son's citation for valor flank her personal Maginot Line. Before she can say OCD, she finds herself boss of the bandage brigade...
This strange story and its performance (it is billed as "the American Mrs. Miniver") fit each other like gloves without hands in them. Fay Bainter succeeds against hopeless odds in making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note...