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Whipsaw (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) embodies the ultimate variations in what can be done with a G-man (Spencer Tracy) keeping tabs on a girl (Myrna Loy) with whom he falls in love. She has the Koronoff pearls in the handle of the mirror of her dressing-case set, but does not know it. They have been planted there by one of two gangs of thieves competing for them. Including scenes in London, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and New Orleans the double-headed chase goes rollicking along in steamboats, planes and hired automobiles...
...Whipsaw the hero and heroine are kept out of the same bed because Tracy believes Miss Loy is involved in a robbery, and it is therefore his duty to treat her as a Federal operative must treat any subject under surveillance; because Miss Loy knows that Tracy, in spite of his pose as a fellow criminal, is really a sleuth. Dialog wavers back & forth between flippant, Grade A exchanges between Miss Loy and Tracy, and sad C-minus stretches where the crooks make remarks like, "We're hep to the whole layout...
Love finally blossoms in a farmhouse where Miss Loy and Tracy, stranded by a storm, help the farmer's wife through the ordeal of bearing twins. Even quintuplets would not have made Whipsaw important, but Myrna Loy's charm and Tracy's skillful underplaying are assets that no picture can have...
...proof vest. Her indignant belief that his attentions to the female spy are nothing but a wanton flirtation finally lands them in a trap where the dapper lieutenant saves Joel from gunfire by knocking her down with a blow on the jaw, almost precisely as Powell did to Myrna Loy in The Thin...
...actresses have benefited by Myrna Loy's salary strike last summer. Luise Rainer got Miss Loy's part in Escapade. That picture, in which William Powell starred, encouraged the studio to try the trick again in Rendezvous. Before that, Rosalind Russell, 28, had appeared in eight minor roles, impressed critics most favorably in Forsaking All Others...