DOUBLE DYNAMITE
(RKO-Radio) BELIEVE it or not, though it is now (if memory serves) some seven years since Jane Russell first burst into pictures this is the first time that I have seen her on the’screen, and I could not but reflect (recalling the build-up she has had in both hemispheres) that the reality was something of a letdown. Double Dynamite is a not very noisy squib and such fireworks. as there are are not supplied by Miss Russell at all. This time she is a simple small-town girl, with a simple small-town silhouette, and her only ambition is to get married simply and without fuss to young Frank Sinatra, a teller in the bank where she herself works. Playing Dan Cupid to these two is Groucho Marx, and even he is unusually subdued. He does, however, retain enough of his pristine impudence to inject some genuine comedy into the show-and Sinatra has one fair comic sequence on his own. But for an actress with such a pneumatic reputation, Miss Russell seemed curiously wooden.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 18
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174DOUBLE DYNAMITE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 18
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