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...MGM productions somehow always smack of the middle-aged sentimentality of Sigmund Romberg, and like Romberg they go along in the same pleasant way, making some people happy and others disgusted. "The Clock," it will be said, is heart-warming--and it is, depending on one's state of mind...
...typical American boy, popularly and erroneously, is a Middle-Western farm or small-town product, and that's what Robert Walker, who has become a very mature actor, is in "The Clock." And following further the dictates of the popular imagination, though here it is nor erroneous, MGM has put him in a uniform--Corporal...
...Reader's Digest addicts at MGM are usually more careful. In two respects, their latest offering has proved offensive. First, there are two accepted ways of looking at the war through the movies. Film producers have either gone off the sentimental deep end, as in "Since you Went Away," or they have shown war with the personal toughness of Hemingway, as the British and Russians have done consistently and an Hollywood has done in such pictures as "Purple Heart," "Sahara," and the service releases. "Music for Million a" takes a rather careless view...
With a star-spangled dramatis personae including Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Moore, William Bendix, Jerry Colonna, and Robert Benchley, "It's in the Bag" sounds like a funnyman version of the Warner and MGM gargantuas, but is instead a movie version of the Texaco Star Theater, complete with Mrs. "No-o-o-o?" Noosbaum...
...This MGM production presents a delicate rearrangement of the queen and the knight on a chess-board they have seen at least twice before, in "Keeper of the Flame" and "Woman of the Year." It does not present merely a re-grooved record; Katie and Tracy manage to stay in character in an intelligent comedy that has good lines, a virtue plays like "The Wind is Ninety" don't feel is necessary. There's even a quote from T. S. Eliot--"April is the cruelest month"--which must be some kind of record for the movies...