UP IN ARMS
(R.K.O. Radio)
NOTHER , film designed with the apparent object of showing that war is just a picnic. To this end Sam Goldwyn puts technicoloured
chorus girls, jazz bands, and "torch" singers galore on board an American transport bound for the Pacific war zone. But he also puts aboard a new comedian (new to the screen anyway) whose name is Danny Kaye and whose specialty is a curious but. fascinating form of gibberish technically known as "double talk," which is particularly successful in two satirical sketches, one directed. at,the average Hollywood film story, the other at life in the army. In brief, Danny Kaye’s presence on shipboard excuses most of. the other absurdities; and although I am opposed on principle to the movie industry’s conception of the war as primarily an excuse for Bigger and Brighter MusicalComedies and Mightier and More Thrilling Melodramas, if there ever is any excuse for that kind of treatment it is in this kind of show. So if you like musical-Comedies, you should like Up in Arms
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 258, 2 June 1944, Page 29
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174UP IN ARMS New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 258, 2 June 1944, Page 29
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