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Happily cast as a ghoulish small-town scamp, Wayne accidentally kills his unpopular Uncle Joe on a family picnic and, fearing a murder charge, talks the family into burying him secretly near by. When he learns that the dead man carried a $10,000 life insurance policy (double indemnity for accidents), he hopefully begins identifying a random lot of corpses as Uncle Joe. Twice balked by insurance investigators, once in the midst of a mock-solemn funeral service full of twittering canaries, Wayne finally decides to dig up Uncle Joe and put him where he can do some good...
...play the British, having captured a New Hampshire town, decide to hang a prominent rebel as an example to the townspeople. But for the parson they are seeking (Victor Jory) they mistake a godless scamp (Evans) who is drinking tea with the parson's wife (Marsha Hunt). The scamp, however, insists on carrying out the imposture, and in the gaudiest traditions of melodrama has his neck in the noose when deliverance comes...
Carousel has moved Liliom from 20th-century Budapest to 19th-Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good...
...John Payne) on his old sergeant pal (Randolph Scott) to be made a man of. It ambles through a romance with an almost unbearably beautiful nurse (Maureen O'Hara), a fight, a near court-martial, a rescue at sea. They make a Marine out of the young scamp, all right, but it hardly seems worthwhile, cinematically...
...effective way to de-monocle Lord Haw-Haw for his British following would be to make him out a foreign-born, low-degree scamp like Joyce. Last week British officials, presumably after investigation of their own, assured the press that Joyce was, indeed, the man. At week's end His Lordship had not acknowledged the identification...