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...offers a well-balanced program this weekend: two grade B pictures instead of the usual one piperoo, one stinkcroo. "Tartu," with gigolo Robert Donat and topid Valerie Hobson, is about a British spy doing impossible things in the heart of Nazi-held Czechoslovakia. That sort of thing just doesn't go over without some semblance of reality- and possibility; this was just too fantastic...
...shame to waste this good band on such pop tunes. They need something to cut loose on. The reverse, Head Over Heels In Love***, is better, having Edythe Wright vocalizing in place of Jack Leonard. After she finishes, Max Kaminsky (trumpet) and Bud Freeman (tenor sax) add a few topid bars...
...with all these high-sounding recommendations, "Fellow the Fleet" is topid at best. The producers had every reason to expect that a conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...
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