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1944 |
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BLACK COMEDY
COMEDY
WAR
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US |
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101 |
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A smalltown boy (Eddie Bracken) goes home during wartime and is lauded as a military hero; he is afraid to tell his family that the marines turned him down because of chronic hay fever.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Preston Sturges's talented repertory company of character actors is seen to good effect in this satirical comedy which debunked patriotic humbug, military pretensions, and the American propensity for hero-worship. It would have been daring at any time, but was especially courageous during the war. It's fast-paced and full of snappy dialogue, but the plot is over-contrived; there's something unpleasantly sneering about Sturges's attitude toward the gullible townsfolk; and the targets have inevitably dated. |
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, Ella Raines, Bill Edwards
