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...while some 1,000 troops shouted approval, she undraped herself to reveal the brief, two-piece fur suit. Next day, orders came by way of Tokyo for Terry to leave Korea on the first plane out of Seoul. Later Terry got permission to stay, provided she stuck to the script and skipped the goose pimples. Sighed the U.S.O. unit manager: "Everything is all right now, since she is not doing a strip...
Handsomely mounted by William and Jean Eckart, the play is directed by its author with the same smooth competence shown in his script. Using a series of set pieces rather than a plot, Chodorov seldom penetrates very deeply into the causes of the war between the sexes, but he does illuminate, with good will as well as good humor, one of the minor skirmishes along that worldwide front line...
...begin with, the studio made her job almost impossible by using a script that seems to have been prepared not by a writer but by a team of sanitation experts. Sadie is no longer a bad woman; she is just a hard-working girl who is wandering around the islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean looking for-what else?-a nightclub engagement. The U.S. marine, who in earlier productions made a somewhat simpler proposition, makes here an earnestly unconvincing proposal of marriage...
Walking My Baby Back Home (Universal) is a musical with its brains in its feet. The feet, young Donald O'Connor's, are clever enough to weave their way through any reasonably foolish script. But in this picture, Dancer O'Connor is tangled in at least a half-mile of celluloid that should have been left on the cutting-room floor. The love interest: Janet Leigh, in a sweater. The whole thing ends with a sort of death rattle: a concert of "symphonic Dixieland" that seems better calculated to finish jazz than to revive...
...Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas. An outstanding film script inspired by the notorious case of the 19th century Edinburgh body snatchers, Burke and Hare (TIME...