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High Barbaree (MGM) is distinguished from the usual run of screen romances because it uses some of the elements of genuine romance, and uses them sincerely. Its theme: dreams and ideals, lost and at length regained...
...Carnival in Costa Rica (20th Century-Fox) and It Happened in Brooklyn (MGM...
...Beginning or the End (MGM) and Sinbad the Sailor (RKO Radio...
...Happened in Brooklyn (MGM) features Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson at the tops of their respective voices. It needn't have bothered, so far as the box office is concerned, to do anything more. What little more it does is nearly all to the good. Aside from an overdose of jokes about Brooklyn, everything about the picture is not only unobjectionable but, in a modest way, definitely enjoyable...
...trouble is that Boston (or any other place) just couldn't be as nit-witted as MGM's version of it. All of the sure fire of conflict that forces the Apley of the novel to reexamine his life every time he brushes against the non-Boston world--is telescoped into two dozen or so scenes that are very inadequate. One by one the facets of Apley's life are given five-minute treatment until he becomes a predictable, uncomplicated incompetent who can be counted on for the wrong decision, or at least a carefully articulated Malapropism...