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These deep-city innocents pay a lot too much for a piece of unreal estate in Connecticut-a pleasant-looking, rump-sprung old house which they are wild to patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon...
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas have a highly experienced way with this sort of comedy, and Director H. C. Potter is so much at home with it that he gets additional laughs out of the predatory rustics and even out of the avid gestures of a steam shovel. Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot...
Electees from the Class of '46 whose names were omitted are as follows: Warren Joseph Greene, South Orange, N. J.; William John Pechilis, Brookton; Bradford Perkins, Rochester, N. Y.; Jacob Myron Price, Chicago; Eugene Franklin Rice, Central Aguirre, Puerto Rice; Carl Rodman, Chelsea; Murray David Rosenberg, Roxbury; Melvyn Savage, Cambridge...
...Grass (MGM) lasts only a couple of hours, but it is possible to age a lot during that time. The story is a duel between conservative Cattleman Spencer Tracy and progressive Attorney Melvyn Douglas. Which shall make use of the prairie-the cattle, which will leave it as God made it, or homesteading farmers who (Mr. Tracy keeps warning) will skin it alive? Since Lawyer Douglas has Progress and the Federal Government on his side, the homesteaders eventually...
...honest historical conflict, and a bit of honest unhappiness, in this movie. Spencer Tracy too often gazes stonily at God's sea of grass to show that he is both rugged individualist and nature mystic, but he plays with considerable force and style. As the decades roll by, Melvyn Douglas looks as wretched as the most vindictive moralist could decently expect. Miss Hepburn looks tense too, but arouses interest chiefly through her beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes...