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...Imperfect Lady (Paramount) is the spirited daughter (Teresa Wright) of a late-Victorian shopkeeper (Reginald Owen). Touring with a dancing troupe against papa's wishes, she meets and falls in love with Ray Milland, who tries to appeal to the audience going & coming: he is standing for Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi...
...report on silicosis in South African mines. For Pedro Aguayo he won a 4,900-peso verdict. A week later he had 3,000 more such cases. A week after that he had a brand-new car. By month's end he and his partner-chubby Gabriel Ramos Milland, now a senator-had 16,000 cases. They got 25% of all judgments, figured half of that clear profit...
Last year Ray Milland was voted the best drunk of the year...
...technicolor spectacle, number of hoof-beats per square actor. "California" fails miserably on the first two counts and barely comes within minimum standards on the last. Where the hero generally carries the plot on his godlike shoulders and livens the dialogue with sardonic humor, a miscast Ray Milland almost appears to be a slightly paunchy heel...
...only refreshing notes are the excellence of Barbara stanwyck, perfectly cast as a questionable woman, the wonderful Irish brogue of Barry Fitzgerald, and the ceric perfection of a knife fight. By warping the conventional meat and potatoes script. Paramount has succeeded only in weakening Ray Milland's excellent reputation and in alienating what Western lovers it still has left...