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Although by now this seems to be getting trite, we Seniors welcome the newwest addition to the Mid.-Off. unit...
When a movie is based on an unoriginal idea and an overabundance of emotion, it takes a truly professional touch to keep matters from getting trite. Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Hilton, the young wife of the Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
...part of an insurance claims investigator, a Mr. Keyes, now appears on the scene and stirs the plot into a boil. Events follow each other in rapid succession, and before the audience knows it the picture is at an end--and a conclusion, may we say, that is exceptionally trite and uninteresting...
...insurance-claims investigator, Robinson plays his usual stock role and steals several scenes from MacMurray. Walter Noff (MacMurray) isn't as smart as his chief, however, and Robinson scraps his perfect crime to save the insurance company $100,000. But there isn't a trite "crime doesn't pay" line anywhere...
...protector has not escaped its editor's barbs. Captain Charlton wrote Monty's first Order of the Day in the desert. Thereafter the General wrote his own, but Charlton edited some of them. Said the Captain of the General: "He kept using the same old trite phrases...