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Before seeing the feature you'll have to sit through something called "Atlantic Convoy." Filmed in a bathtub containing model boats no self-respecting man would give to his kid brother, this film never even flickers...
Jonny Davis (Clark Gable) and his kid brother Kirk (Robert Sterling) are ace war correspondents. Both are in love with bright-topped Paula Lane (Lana Turner), also an ace war correspondent. The trio's assignments take them from Manhattan to French Indo-China and Manila. But most of the time they are busier with their luckless love affair. Their story is mainly a set of cues for the sort of hard-boiled mating-dance at which Mr. Gable is an amiable virtuoso. In Manhattan Jonny makes love to Paula, then jilts her. In Indo-China Paula makes love...
Crosby needles Astaire ("That'll be easy, like peeling a turtle"), makes sage love to the heroine (Marjorie Reynolds), ad libs at will, takes time out to kid one of his own recordings ("Sing it, sing it pretty!"). Two of the picture's best new songs (Berlin threw in Easter Parade and Lazy for good measure) are his: Abraham, a solid swing spiritual for Lincoln's birthday, and Let's Start the New Year Right, which does...
...Beyond the Blue Horizon" there lies a land of treacherous natives, mad elephants, tigers that swim, and a brilliantly beautiful jungle. It's the kind of a jungle that every kid explorer dreams about, but no real one sees with less than four zombies under his belt. If you can overlook this minor detail though, there are several other bits of humor that make this picture a sorry contrast to the recent run of heavy drama. Top billing goes to Dorothy Lamour and Richard Denning, both well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer...
...There was nothing spectacular about him except his flying, and he wanted very little except to be fit and right for that. When he got leave he would got to London and his mother would ask Paddy's girl over from next-door-but-one, and if his kid brother got leave from the Bomber Command at the same time they would have a real party. He scarcely ever took a drink and did not smoke much...