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There is some lag in the early parts of the film, but when the Mary Loos-Richard Sale script finally manages to give Willie (Dan Dailey) his overseas assignment, it hits the stride of runaway farce. Within a wild four days, Willie flies the Atlantic twice, bails out of a B-17 over German-held France, joins the French underground, carries a top enemy secret to Eisenhower's headquarters and the Pentagon-and winds up back in Punxsutawney, suspected of desertion...
...Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies, lampoons the bellicose American Legionnaire father with merciless skill. Dan Dailey flings himself into the best role of his career with all his hoofer's timing and energy, makes befuddled Willie just as funny, human and enormously likable as he ought...
...Everything (20th Century-Fox) is a movie of and for the family. It has just about everything, including Technicolor, that a family movie should have: a devoted father (Dan Dailey) who can sing & dance, a doting mother (Anne Baxter) who can dance and act, and a sprightly moppet of a daughter (Shari Robinson) who, like most Hollywood prodigies, can do almost everything except the two-and-a-half somersault on a flying trapeze...
Chicken Every Sunday (20th Century-Fox) might look pretty foolish if it were set in modern times, but as a turn-of-the-century fable it seems plausible enough. The hero (Dan Dailey) is a rainbow-chaser-a dreamer, a promoter, an incurable gambler. He is the type who insists on financing a hospital in a small Arizona town because his wife (Celeste Holm) is expecting her first baby, but he is also ready to gamble their home against the long chance that he will bring in a copper mine. Dailey will take a flyer on anything, but once...
...hedge against his blue-sky antics, his cagey wife runs a boardinghouse. Thus, Chicken Every Sunday is crowded with a rich, hot-biscuits-&-gravy atmosphere and some folksy characters. When Dailey's last fling (the coppermine gamble) almost gets the whole crew thrown into the street, the moral emerges: How can a man be a failure if he makes a lot of friends, wins the love of his wife and children and even the respect of his boarders...