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...munitions-laden laggard from a United Nations convoy. It comes through the mutual animosities of Chief Petty Officer Pat O'Brien and disgraced, re-enlisted Sailor George Murphy so predictably that by the picture's end they are brothers-in-law (with the help of Nurse Jane Wyatt). It also comes through at the seams, so abundantly that it is sometimes hard to see the ballast for the bilge...
Jackie Cooper, Max Baer and others give these parts the earnest locker-room charm which is one of the best things about action pictures. In this heavily masculine maritime setting Cinemactress Wyatt is as out of place as a ladies' first-aid drill on Henderson Field...
Just a year ago last week the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn's Dodgers had faced one another in a do-or-die showdown for the National League pennant. And Brooklyn's big Righthander Whit Wyatt had pitched the Dodgers to a 1-to-0 shutout against the Cards' big Righthander Mort Cooper...
...Cooper and Wyatt were on the mound again and it was happening all over again, only not quite the same way. During August the scrappy young Cardinals had come up from behind until now they were only two games behind the faltering Dodgers. Cooper had not lost a game since he discarded his No. 13 shirt in disgust, and begun borrowing that teammate's shirt whose number corresponded to the number of the game he wanted...
...Most gruesome hanging in the book is that of James Madison Wyatt Stone, Washington restaurant proprietor who murdered his wife. Stone was so fat that his head was jerked off by the hangman's noose while his body fell to the ground...