HERE COME THE WAVES
(Paramount)
ITH Bing Crosby appearing in the role of a crooner who has more of the characteristics of Frank Sinatra than of Bing Crosby, this film
promises at the start to be a fairly bright and intermittently tuneful satire on the "bobby-sox cult" of silly females who squeal and faint whenever they hear or see their hero. But it soon reveals itself as just another of MHollywood’s "musical tributes" to the Services (this time to the U.S. equivalent of the Wrens). The patriotic theme proceeds according to formula, with people in cushy base jobs breaking their necks to be sent into action overseas, while the "love-interest," involving two sailors and two girls (twins, played simultaneously by ‘Betty Hutton), is the familiar romantic hotchpotch in which everybody does ‘the usual incredible things for the usual fatuous reasons. The film degenerates so badly that towards the end it is present- | an 4 ith. approval some of the senti7 mush which it has earlier pil-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 16
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166HERE COME THE WAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 16
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