(Boston & France; contemporary)
A rare post-silent Frank Capra film I hadn’t seen. Bing Crosby is a reporter stationed three years in France who has taken up the cause of war orphans. Wanting to adopt a special two of them, Crosby attempts to persuade an old flame to marry him, only she’s engaged to the scion of a family of Boston blue-bloods, ‘Philadelphia Story’ type love quardrangel ensues. While the flick is likable, and has the trademark sentiment and humor of Capra’s earlier work, the material is not as good and the director isn’t pushing himself, something he admitted in his autobiography. Still as I said its enjoyable, and has some fun cameo’s including Louie Armstrong, Hedey Lamar and Charles Lane. Also “introduced” is a young Anna Maria Alberghetti, in a sequence that really doesn’t fit the tone of the rest of this somewhat uneven movie.
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