ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU
(M.G.M.) DON’T expect anyone will believe me when I say that I went along to see On An Island with You simply because Jimmy Durante. was in the cast, but that is no less than the truth-or very little less, anyway. Unfortunately
r% Mr. Durante was not as funny as I had hoped he would be. His jokes were laboured and his little ditties fell far short of the classic comedy of, say, The Lost Chord. That left me with Esther Williams who spent most of her time wearing a heavy sub-tropical make-up and a swim-suit that looked as if it had been put on with a spray-gun. I would be the last to deny the charms of Miss Williams, so long as one is not exposed to them for too, long, but the very thought of being cooped up on an island with her leaves me fatigued. The film was not without its minor attractionssome attractive water-ballet sequences, ‘a neat piece of fancy ballroom dancing by Cyd-Charisse and Ricardo Montalban, and for those who liked Latin American noises there was Xavier Cugat and his orchestra-but these were only minor attractions. The tout ensemble left me yawning.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 23
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202ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 23
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