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...Moonlight in Hawaii" is nobody's picture--not the producer's, not the director's, not the actor's, not the gag-writers'; nobody's, not even the garbage man's. It's one of the cheapest, slowest, corniest, dullest pictures ever to come out of Hollywood. That's going...
Based on Cradle Snatchers, a Coolidge-era farce in which three long-suffering wives commandeer three college-boy gigolos, Let's Face It! chucks college boys for draftees without bringing shame upon the Army or disaster to the show. It is a lively job, leaping nimbly from gag to gag, light on its feet, pleasant to the eye. Cole Porter's score, though never haunting, is often hummable. In a generally competent cast, Comedienne Eve Arden stands out for her deft, acid touch, Mary Jane Walsh for her singing personality...
...Convention gag: "Everybody look under the table to see if Pegler is there...
...glide through this kind of thing without wiggling an ear, is devilish good in his sure-fire part; so are Frank Morgan (retired judge and practicing drunkard) and Claire Trevor (dancehall hostess). A super Western salted with equal dashes of shooting and sex, Honky Tank will burn no tongues, gag few gullets...
...gag, Cornell was caught with her pants napping, but as luck would have it, the sleeper pass to the man on the sidelines was bad and Syracuse failed to score...