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...general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most unfortunate touch is the finale between the off-screen voices of a British and a U.S. soldier philosophizing vaguely about the postwar world, signing off with a glad, excruciating: "Wot a job! Bringin' back the smiles to kids' faces...
Almost every day U.S. Army Liberators bombed the Marshalls; once they paid two visits between dawn and dusk. The big bombers pummeled Wot je's drome, tore up Taroa's runways, buildings and anchorage, damaged Jaluit's shore defenses, all secretly installed since the Japs took over this mandate from the unsuspecting League of Nations...
Antics. The town's best act is Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante, who, at the brightly Brazilian Copacabana with its gorgeous showgirls, is making his first real nose-to-nose appearance in twelve years. Schnozzle ("I know I'm not good-lookin', but wot's my opinion against tousands of odders?") has aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson...
...team is filled with sissies wot won't guzzle...
...wot 'ud be the good of that?" said...