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Warning to hikers and picnickers: 1) ticks are everywhere, so make careful inquiries before going on a long tramp; 2) keep arms, legs and neck covered when walking through brush or high grass; 3) take ticks off yourself or dog with tweezers, not fingers...
...embarassingly over-done in spots. As a serious warning to America that a Democracy is not altogether safe from some of its own power-craving citizens, it is rather well-timed and forcefully presented. And lastly, as a humorous love story about a newspaper sob sister and an erstwhile tramp, the picture is well-acted, well-written, and definitely up to previous Capra standards...
...picture tells the story of an easy-going tramp who becomes involved in a nation-wide publicity stunt by a pretty newspaper reporter. The publicity stunt, however, takes on Fascist leanings when it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous publisher, which, needless to say, complicates the somewhat idyllic love story; and what starts out to be a harmless little romance turns into a national crisis...
Gary Cooper is excellent as the guileless tramp, though by now the role of a good-natured, honest, lovable fellow from the sticks must be getting a little tiring for him. Barbara Stanwyck imitates the movie conception of a woman reporter to perfection, even though in the end she has to let her hair down and become merely A Woman. Edward Arnold also acts out a part which he has played for years--the cigar-smoking, smooth-talking menace who threatens to upset the true-love apple-cart with his foul designs, but in the end is either converted...
Over the din of the dinner the Governor's hillbilly band, masters of The Long Ago, The Tramp's Mother, and the classic Beautiful Texas, played on the mansion steps. Fifteen women fainted during the serving. Dinner over, the crowd streamed through the mansion, shook hands with the Governor, who gave each handshaker a big Texas grapefruit. One woman fell down and was tromped on; she became hysterical. Five more women fainted at the reception. Another broke her ankle when she jumped over a hedge. When the barbecue was over, the mansion grounds were covered with a vast...