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...these days. At any other time you are likely to run into a foul little film called "Child of Divorce," whose buck-toothed protagonist is the most trenchant argument yet for birth control. But though the main feature involves another set of buck teeth, this time attached to Miss Tierney, they are fairly easily forgotten in the whimsical flow of this Anglicized Twentieth Century Fox picture...
...Spirit" and "Stairway to Heaven," the men in the shadow of Beverly Hills have made the romance of the shade of a sea captain and a very much alive young widow, excellent and almost believable entertainment. Only the loud, artificial background music is out of place. The widow, Gene Tierney of course, is beset by all sorts of worries from beginning to end. She has no money to pay for the rent, so the captain dictates the story of his life to her, which she has published under the appropriate title of "Blood and Swash." Another time she is left...
...Widow Tierney scares so spiritedly, and is so fond of the house, that the ex-seaman gets to liking her. He even shoos off the in-laws who come to pester her, and at length settles down to dictating his memoirs, which are as briny ashore as at sea. The captain's bawdy memoirs become a bestseller, and settle the widow's money troubles. More intimate troubles are less easily attended to, for it is no fun to fall in love with a ghost. She tries to face reality by taking up with a simpering masher (George Sanders...
From there on out, unhappily, the story is just a series of clumsy, apologetic scenes which hurry Miss Tierney across enough time to die a natural death and thus qualify for Captain Harrison's ghostly embraces. The film's whimsy is a bit heavy-handed and it is short on wit, style and ingenuity. Yet most of it is pleasant enough fun, and pretty to watch. Harrison, apparently modeling himself after Bernard Shaw as a boy of 40, sports a handsome beaver. Miss Tierney wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini...
Surest gag: Miss Tierney, typing under Harrison's stern dictation, gingerly pecking out four letters which, it is clear, no lady would roll on her tongue...