Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sailor Takes a Wife (M-G-M). In the surest-fire Hollywood tradition, a sailor (Robert Walker) meets a girl (June Allyson) in Manhattan. He sweet-talks and kisses her in a taxi in Central Park, marries her that same night in Connecticut before going back to his ship. It is all very fast, young and foolish...
...gayer younglove yarn than Sailor rarely turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The Clock's tenderness and sentimental charm (plus moments of mere cuteness), considerably more pace and broad humor...
...hang-fire Walker-Allyson honeymoon is what keeps the picture going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
Last week Publishers Rinehart & Co. (who had read about the sailor's trouble in TIME) satisfied his curiosity and hoped to whet a lot of other people's, by bringing out the first U.S. edition...
...this story of thugs and trulls, enough sin and mayhem occurs (or is about to) on every page to remind U.S. readers of James M. Cain. The complete, animal innocence of its hero-a sort of Id with pants down-is funny, scary, and fascinating. But the sailor is not going to like the two missing chapters. After raising the promise of Cain for the first 207 pages, Author Butler subsides into a tea-and-marmalade finish...