Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mother Is a Freshman (20th Century-Fox) is a featherbrained variation on one of Hollywood's most cherished myths: that U.S. Moms up to the age of 40 should be able, at the drop of a mink stole, to look and act like their teen-age daughters. The plot, as silly as a schoolgirl's endorsement of a beauty soap, is just about as inventive...
...Captain Joy (Lionel Barrymore), New Bedford's No. 1 whaler, faces a dilemma. Should he once again take along his orphaned, sea-struck grandson (Dean Stockwell) or leave him ashore to catch up on his book learnin'? In Boston-trained Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) he finds a plot-making compromise. Lunceford, he figures, has enough schooling to keep both a ship and Little Jed's education afloat. After a slow, landlubberly beginning, the three of them, with Dan as first mate, set sail for the whaling grounds and a few stern lessons in character-building...
Hollywood has takes ever Jenny's story with results that although generally good, bog down rather sadly in one particular--a mistaken impression that a point made ones can be made fifth times. The plot is largely the same as Nathan left it, but whereas Nathan achieved his timeless effect unobtrusively, the movie continually harps on the strange by-products of Jenny's memory and her miraculous ability to hop about in time...
...plot, which revolves around the really worn-out pregnancy motif and the First Sergeant's schemes to get transferred overseas, is fortunately incidental. The main humor is in the minor incidents, such as the colonel's inspection of the orderly room, and the men's desperate stampede to get under cover at 5:15 to avoid having to salute as the flag is lowered...
20th Century-Fox's latest over-advertised bid for immortality is a sea story which can be classified as a pitiful imitation of "Captains Couragous." The plot, ostensibly concerned with the New Bedford whaling industry in the 1880's, is actually a dull treatise on child psychology and the problem of duty versus humanity...