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...come out of Hollywood in a long time; and also one of the best. Whatever it is is due entirely to Preston Sturges, because he both wrote and directed it, and because the ideas and the moods, rather than the plot, are the body of the film. Though Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake dos serve a good bit of credit for some fine acting, you cannot help feeling in a picture like this that they are merely interpreting somebody else's ideas. And those ideas are undoubtedly Mr. Sturges...
...picture starts in Hollywood, where Joel McCrea is Sullivan, a Hollywood director who decides he hasn't seen anything of suffering and hardship, and therefore sets off as a tramp to see Life. Of course he runs into Veronica Lake and the two of them proceed out together on Sullivan's travels. At first it is pure comedy, and excellent comedy at that. But then, in a long, silent sequence, Mr. Sturges inserts a serious documentary account of the hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time...
...half the life in The Wookey comes from Edmund Gwenn, an actor with a capacity for making mediocre parts seem masterpieces of playwriting. In the cinema Foreign Correspondent, as an eerie minor villain who tried to push hero Joel McCrea off a tall tower, in The Earl of Chicago as a gentleman's gentleman who looked after gangster Robert Montgomery, he stole whole scenes from the principals. But as Mr. Wookey he steals nothing; the play is handed to him and he runs away with...
Blue-eyed Newcomer Hayden is half Dutch, half British, looks a little like James Stewart. Biggest leading man in Hollywood (6 ft. 4 in., 212 lb.), he is taller than Joel McCrea or Gary Cooper, an inch taller than Fred MacMurray. Hayden's smooth job of acting in Virginia made him a star. His next picture, with Dorothy Lamour, will be Dildo Cay. Scene: a desolate island in the West Indies...
Foreign Correspondent (Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Robert Benchley, Albert Basserman; TIME, Sept...