A GIRL IN EVERY PORT
(RKO Radio) (,ROUCHO MARX and William Bendix have a rare old time as a couple of swindling sailors who become the owners of a racehorse which can’t run but has a twin ¢gbrother which can. Things get so involved, with Groucho’s ' (continued on next page)
double-talk and this double load of horseflesh, that soon there are spies, bombs, and finally a medal for Groucho. Marie Wilson is the horse’s owner, and Groucho waddles through the foolishness with his usual suavity and a rather inane lot of wisecracks. But he only just manages to keep the film alive. Since the Marx brothers broke up their famous partnership Groucho is the only one to have kept something of his old reputation, though as far as this comedy is concerned he might have done better to have stayed in television. The director is Charles Erskine,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 12
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147A GIRL IN EVERY PORT New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 12
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