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...Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked a difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object of ridicule in some quarters and an envied example in others...
Whirlpool (20th Century-Fox). "WARNING!" cry the ads for this picture. "If you are easily hypnotized, don't see it alone." The copywriter must have confused the hypnotic with the soporific. As the latest case history in five-reel psychiatry, with some Mesmer thrown in, the movie is a Freudian slip...
...moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
...casting of Flynn in the role of Soames and of Young in the part of Bossiney hurt this film before the first reel was shot. Flynn is not equipped to portray a stodgy, meticulous Englishman; and Young was hopelessly awkward as the eccentric, dynamic architect. Little wonder that Miss Garson couldn't warm up to her task opposite two such misfits. Only Pidgeon, who played Young Jolyon, carried out his assignment satisfactorily. But he appeared too seldom to redeem the incongruity of the other characters...
...SCAP has not seen enough of "the sober afterglow" to let the Japanese read Reel's The Case of General Yamashita...