BRING ON THE GIRLS
(Paramount)
WHEN a film producer announces so blatantly that he is about to bring on the girls it usually means that he hasn’t
got a new idea in his head tor a story, that he has run out of gags, that all his most popular stars have left him for bigger salaries at another studio and that he has to rely on a display of Technicoloured pulchritude to dazzle the public and make them believe they are getting their money’s worth. I don’t know whether this film is worth your money, but if it’s only 1/6 (or perhaps 2/3) it might be. In fact, as musical-comedies g0 (which usually isn’t very far) Bring on the Girls is a passable entertainment. Don’t get me wrong: the producer didn't have a new idea in his head for a story, but had to fall back on the one about the multi-millionaire trying to find a wife to love him for ~
himself alone; some of the gags are worn as thin as tissue-paper; and I Aave seen prettier girls before, even in Technicolour. But Eddie Bracken, as the ‘maltreated millionaire, is an engaging sort of comedian; Sonny Tufts, as his bodyguard, is a brighter specimen than his name might suggest; and Veronica Lake, as a golddigger, and Marjorie Reynolds, as a girl who doesn’t need to dig because her father is a banker, are both easy enough to look at. The best sequence in the film shows the poor little rich boy pretending to be deaf so that he may discover who are his true friends. It has been done before, of ‘course, but is still good for some laughs. If it comes to that, you might say the same thing about the whole film.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 19
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295BRING ON THE GIRLS New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 19
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