THAT WONDERFUL URGE
(20th Century-Fox) "[YRONE POWER as a hard-boiled journalist who does a series of scurrilous articles about Gene Tierney, an heiress, and finally falls in love with her, sounds almost possible, for romantic Hollywood. But this picture is neither as romantic-nor as humorous-as_ it might be. The fault doesn’t altogether lie with the ‘actors, who do the best they can with inferior material; in fact, at) first the picture seems to have possibilities. But the things that happen gradually get so banal that although you keep on laughing at most of the jokes and the ludicrous situations, you’ can’t help thinking that the whole affeir is just becoming ridiculous. A comedy has to retain at least the illusion of reality if it’s to come off at all, and this one doesn’t. To get revenge on the unprincipled journalist, Miss Tierney pretends | she’s gone off somewhere and married him (everyone believes this, of course) and when he tries to assert his. conjugal rights some rather «tasteless boudoir humour results. The picture: ends with the two of them billing and cooing beside her bed and saying, Well, if everybody else thinks we’re married, why don’t we do something about it too?or words to that effect.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 513, 22 April 1949, Page 21
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205THAT WONDERFUL URGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 513, 22 April 1949, Page 21
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