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Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 admittedly played a gallant role in the delaying action of the Philippine retreat. But MGM has succumbed to the usual temptation of ascribing too much glory to too small a company. What was originally an honest account of the P.T. boats' performance has now been magnified and somewhat distorted; too many guns and too much shooting have detracted from the realism which could have made this one of the few really good war pictures...
Vacation from Marriage (MGM) is a warm, gentle, wise little Britain-in-wartime comedy, excellently acted by a British cast, excellently directed by Sir Alexander Korda...
...Harvey Girls (MGM) is a Technicolored musical celebrating the coming of chastity, clean silverware and crumbless tablecloths to the pioneer Southwest. The bearers of this culture, according to evidence presented here, were waitresses brought out from the East and Midwest 50-odd years ago to staff the Fred Harvey system of depot lunchrooms. As history, this thesis might astonish even the late Mr. Harvey. As light-horse-opera, complete with cowboys, Indians, a rattlesnake, a railroad and Judy Garland in leg-of-mutton sleeves, it has its points...
...Happened at the Inn (MGM International) is the first French movie made during the war to be shown in the U.S. A fantastic, melodramatic little comedy about a French provincial family named Goupi, the film hints broadly that beneath its sparkling surface lies an allegory. Just what the allegory is never becomes clear. But It Happened at the Inn is funny-in a subtler way than its American counterpart, You Can't Take It with You. The Goupis are a family of ferocious, mildly balmy individualists who squabble incessantly among themselves but present a miraculously united front...
Portrait of Maria (MGM International) is a Mexican-made film with an English sound track dubbed in. It thus reverses the traditional practice of dubbing Spanish into Hollywood films so that Spanish-speaking movie audiences will get the impression that Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, et al. are speaking idiomatic Spanish. U.S. cinemaddicts will not be surprised to hear Maria's heroine (Delores Del Rio) speaking English, but they will note that the sound track doesn't quite match the Del Rio lips-or even the Del Rio voice...