Sunday, December 18, 2011

Everything Happens at Night (1939)


20th Century-Fox Film Corporation
Directed by Irving Cummings
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Fox)
(Fox Movie Channel)

Ray Milland and Robert Cummings are a pair of reporters in Switzerland competing to get the scoop on a political informer in hiding. However, they spend most of their time competing for the attention of Sonja Henie, who turns out to be the one hiding the man. Sonja gets an elaborate fantasy skating sequence in a rink decked out with chandeliers and Greek columns. There are numerous outdoor skiing scenes done with obvious back projection. Cummings and Milland's romantic rivalry is tiresome.

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