Directed by Edwin L. Marin
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
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Confusing story of a wealthy old maid in New York City who plants newspaper headlines in order to bring home her three estranged sons for Christmas Eve and save her from a scheming nephew. The first son is George Brent, a philandering womanizer who has lost all of his money and is writing rubber checks. How Joan Blondell can be in love with such a heel is just one of many of the problems with the plot. The second son is George Raft, a crook who has fled to South America to escape the law. He tangles with a Nazi on a yacht. The third son is Randolph Scott, a washed up rodeo star in New York City who finds himself in the middle of the baby black market. None of the three stories are believable, the dialogue laughable and the characters unsympathetic. The wraparound story contains a bare minimum of Christmas atmosphere.
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