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| Released: |
1941 |
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DRAMA
COMEDY
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Length: |
90 |
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MIXED Reviews
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| | | | | "Your opinion of the piece may depend partly on how much of a scream you find it to remember, when Sullivan is safe home, that the convicts are still in gaol. Impossible to deny, though, that it is a remarkable film, written as well as directed by Sturges, and ably executed." | | (Dilys Powell) | | | | "No picture has ever more savagely satirised Hollywood, The distorted values, the essential inhumanity, of the film colony are glaringly highlighted, and the futility of inflated publicity punctured in a cross-country chase which out-Sennetts Sennett. Deflated also are the pretentious directors and writers who yearn to create Art on the movie assembly-line. But what is the issue?... [McCrea] comes to the conclusion that the producers were right, that the masses don't want to solve their problems but to forget them in movie escapism. The cynicism of this vindication of the box-office is at the core of Sturges' outlook and has remained characteristic of him ever since." | | (Paul Rotha & Richard Griffith, The Film Till Now, 1949) | | | |
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, Veronica Lake 
