1/10
This was way too long, boring and disjointed
12 February 2018
I'm giving this one star to even out the current 6.5 rating it definitely does not deserve. Maybe Dennis Morgan fans came here and rated - and to his credit - Dennis Morgan carried this move,along with the minor role of the great actor Jack Carson. This screenplay should have been flushed down the toilet. It's a rewrite of The Animal Kingdom from 1932 with Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy and Ann Harding. Ann Sheridan does the Harding part here - and Ann Sheridan does a HORRIBLE job. It's like watching paint dry. Ann Harding was a "laid back" actress, but she conveyed her passion from the screen in a tremendous and unprecedented way. Maybe somebody told Sheridan "be laid back like Harding was" and it failed, I don't know. But boy nothing can beat the sexual manipulation that played such a large part in the 1932 pre-code original , nor the interplay between Howard, Loy and Harding. This movie was way too long - was disjointed - the "liberal" newspaper part of the plot doesn't play well today - the paper seems like it's supposed to be a kind of Washington Post - which most Americans hate as fake news now. And was Sheridan a photographer? Because she suddenly became a writer at the end of this movie! Sheridan's friend was played by Jane Wyman - another great supporting part that was better than the main actors - but she disappeared in the film like she'd fallen down an open sewer grate. I only watched this to see if they brought all the loose, poorly written threads together for the same ending line as Animal Kingdom - and they did. Don't waste your time on this one - watch 1932's The Animal Kingdom!
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