ARISE MY LOVE
( Paramount)
4 ARISE my love, my fair one, and come away." Solomon to his beautiful fayourite was not more triumphant when he said this than was Ray Milland
when he repeated it-no, not to Claudette Colbert, but to his aeroplane.
You see, Ray Milland had -just escaped from a rather nasty jam in a rather nice way. He was a free-lance airman, condemned to death after the Spanish Civil War for being on the wrong side. Imagine his surprise when he was set free because his only wife -and he a bachelor-had collapsed in tears and had blown the nose of the prison commandant! Incidentally, she had another intriguing habit — biting people’s noses. In light comedy of this type, and in burlesque, the ,picture excels. The dialogue is bright, amusing. Ray Milland philosophises on love in his usual offhand manner, Claudette Colbert describes the ideal nightout to an expectant escort, and resolutely gets on with her job of being a "career woman." The wrong villain is knocked on the head with the best crockery, the hero declares himself a woman-hater and immediately goes on the spree, the heroine sets out for Berlin and ends up in the Forest of Compiégne, the journalists in the case are just as harassed as those in any other picture. The plot is’ supposed to be good; it gained the Academy Award for the most original screen story. I don’t often disagree with the results of these awards, because they are usually so true; but I feel I must say this: If Arise, My Love is original, the ideas are so good that they’ve been anticipated in nearly every other recent American picture with a European or journalistic setting. There’s a good deal of moralising, too, and oceans of sentimentality for good measure. In this film, at any rate, Paramount seems to have made the mistake of trying to cater for all tastes simultaneously. If you like a good laugh, see the first half of the picture and then creep quietly home. If you enjoy a good cleansing weep, or being beaten into a jelly of jingoistic emotions, sneak in the back entrance about ten o'clock. Any time after that you should find scope for an emotion of some sort. On the whole, however, Arise My Love is quite passable entertainment,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 16
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389ARISE MY LOVE New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 16
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