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Then come the tried and money-wise axis of Walter Wanger, Sol Lesser and Edward Small; the Crosby, Cagney and Leo (Going My Way) McCarey companies; and many of the profitable B producers. And perennially on the verge of making another picture are such formidable pioneers of independence as Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, who helped found United Artists Corp...
...York City's 16 daily-newspaper film critics last week announced their annual awards for cinema excellence. Best picture of 1944: Going My Way. Best actor: Barry Fitzgerald, for his performance in Going My Way. Best director: Leo McCarey, for Going...
...force, because even the worst people in Going My Way are as sugar-coated as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Yet it has, inadvertently, a good deal of genuine religious quality, and is often a beautiful piece of entertainment in spite of its Sunny-Jim story. Leo McCarey's leisured, limpid direction and Steve Seymour's splendid sets are partly responsible for this-the coarse lace half-curtains, waxed floors and seldom-used ashtrays of the rectory are evocative just short of genius. But the best reasons are the loving attention to character, and some magnificent acting...
...newshawk Cary watchfully in tow. In no time at all countries begin to fall, and with them the plausibility of the film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story, and the resulting hodge-podge swings from laughter to laments with unnerving rapidity...
...would take a master to mold these diverse elements into a cohesive story. At times able director McCarey seems close to doing it. In the opening sequences the scenes vibrate with the same effervescent youthfulness that the leads are able to exude. But when the complications set in, the whole thing misses the boat. At the fantastic, Wellsian climax, the audience is left with the feeling that Naziism should be left to the tragedians, and that future attempts at comedy should content themselves with less world-shaking themes...