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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Columbia). There is hell to pay when Celestial Messenger No. 7013 (Edward Everett Horton) returns to heaven with the soul of a prize fighter (Robert Montgomery) snatched from his private plane before it crashed to earth in "a place called New Jersey." No. 7013, a green and sentimental hand, wanted to spare the fighter the pain of crashing. But The Book says that the fighter is scheduled to live for 50 more years, meantime becoming world's heavyweight champion. He would have survived the crash; he must be returned to his earthly body...
...With Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), a sort of Angel Gabriel, the fighter sets out to choose his new body from a list of worldlings who are about to die. During the search he falls in love with a girl (Evelyn Keyes) whose father has been wronged by a young, polo-playing millionaire. This persuades him to take the body of the millionaire, who has just been drowned in a bathtub by his wife (Rita Johnson) and his secretary (John Emery...
...whom the world accepts as the millionaire, convinces his manager, who so wrongly had him cremated, that he is really his boy come back in another man's body to win the heavyweight championship is wondrously funny. So is Gleason's awkward attempt to converse with Mr. Jordan, whom he can neither see nor hear. How the fighter finally wins his girl, despite the handicap of having to leave the millionaire's body and take another one before becoming champion, is truly moving...
...Jordan is not a perfectly conceived fantasy. At times it sacrifices credulity and its own premises for the sake of the plot. But it is so filled with good things that all concerned can take a bow for fashioning one of the most singular and comic comedies ever to come out of Hollywood. It molds farce and fantasy into a story that is not only witty but wise. A directorial triumph for Alexander Hall, it is a springboard for two practically perfect performances by Actors Montgomery and Gleason...
...With Vichy tolerating more and more Nazi landings at her colonial airports, British and Free French forces suddenly drove into: 1. Trans-Jordan...