Word: mss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filling the sergeant's shoes quite competently and with the late Bob Benchley suffering nobly as the harassed father. What is most lacking from the current version, however, is that peculiar quality of perpetual excitement and continual building-up of complicated entanglements that makes any farce a successful production. mss...
...modern Malaprop steals the show with his classic but chering of the King's English, and his latest crack about Duffy and his money--"That guy, if he can't take it with him to Heaven, positively won't go!"--more than atones for the rest of the ordeal. mss...
...real issues involved, the issue of men versus capital, the fight of American labor to gain decent working conditions in heavy industry. But MGM is to be commended for the lack of bias in its presentation, even though it has failed to get at the heart of the warfare. mss...
...inevitable, since the two pictures are so similar. Though on a more thrilling and exciting scale than its predecessor, "National Velvet" occasionally suffers from poor directing, with the result that continuity tends to suffer somewhat, especially in the last reel. Otherwise it is a creditable and enjoyable production. mss...