Word: milquetoastish
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Young Man with Ideas (MGM) would seem to be a misnomer for Actor Glenn Ford in this harebrained little comedy. Ford plays a Milquetoastish Montana lawyer who migrates to Los Angeles with his wife (Ruth Roman) and three children. There he finds himself preparing for the California bar examination with blonde Fellow Student Nina Foch, who has a habit of boning up on criminal law while attired in off-the-shoulder lounging pajamas. There is also Denise Darcel, an amorous French nightclub singer who wears low-cut dresses and is under the impression that Ford is a talent scout...
...Male Animal. Gay comedy, gaily revived, of a Milquetoastish professor menaced in class by a Vanzetti letter, at home by a varsity letter man (TIME...
Uncle Harry tells of a man (Joseph Schildkraut) who commits a perfect crime. The criminal is a mild, Milquetoastish bachelor who lives with two maiden sisters (Eva Le Gallienne, Adelaide Klein) who spoil him dreadfully but also spoil his life. They wrangle with each other, watch him like a hawk, keep him from marrying. Not being as harmless as he looks, Harry coolly schemes to poison one of them and have the other charged with the crime...
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