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...Miss Tatlock's Millions. A comedy that wrings sure laughs from some questionable subjects; with John Lund and Barry Fitzgerald (TIME...
From the moment Barry Fitzgerald enlists an unemployed Hollywood stunt man to impersonate the crazy and deceased scion of the Wealthy Tatlock family, "Miss Tatlock's Millions" rockets its imaginative and hugely funny way through acres of slapstick to a wet and happy ending in the Hawaiian breakers...
John Lund, as the stunt man who pretends to have lost his mind, manages to do a really excellent comedy job with only two (2) extraordinary expressions. The scene in which he casually ignites the living room curtains with someone's cigarette lighter is typical of "Miss Tatlock's Millions...
...Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) gives Writer-Producer Charles Brackett another chance to practice his favorite sport of skating on dangerously thin ice. Brackett and his fellow worker Billy Wilder are virtually the only Hollywood practitioners, since the penalty for breaking through the ice is almost certain professional death. Brackett and Wilder have already managed to make movies around such dynamite-loaded topics as divorce, alcoholism, adultery-plus-murder, illegitimacy, the black market in Germany...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...