THE FOREST RANGERS
(Paramount)
ERE we have in Glorious Technicolor good old Fred MacMurray and Mademoiselles Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward (I like her
red hair, in fact I like this young person altogether), in the Wild Logging Country of Texas or somewhere where a marriage licence doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to keep your man if someone else thinks she has a prior and better right to him. That, according to Susan Hayward, is the philosophy of the timber country; and she sets out to try to prove to Paulette Goddard that her sudden marriage to Fred MacMurray (well, it was a bit sudden; she fell off her horse into his arms and about half-an-hour later they seemed to be married), won’t stick in the heat and glare of the raging forest fires that the ranger has to fight. Well, that’s the main idea; Susan Hayward trying to prove it to Paulette Goddard; but you know the Hays Office and the way they feel about wedding rings; so you probably can guess the result. Jolly nice fires, jolly good work with the two-inch hoses, fine heroism and heroine-ism all the way through; my only complaint is that they’ve been lighting fires in the forest and fires in the heart in just this way (and putting them out in just this way, too), ever since I went to my first movie, and I really think it’s time that Hollywood suppressed its incendiary tendencies and thought up a few new plots,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 227, 29 October 1943, Page 21
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251THE FOREST RANGERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 227, 29 October 1943, Page 21
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