Saturday, July 18, 2009

Barricade (1939)


Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
My rating: 2 stars out of 4

The film starts rather poorly, with Alice Faye faking a Russian accent to win the sympathy of the American consulate. Instead she finds herself trapped there with a washed out, drunken reporter. Naturally they fall in love while fending off angry natives. The last half hour or so is actually pretty good, with some tense moments hiding out in a basement while the house above is ransacked.

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