Academy Awards, USA 1943
| Nominated Oscar | Best Sound, Recording Stephen Dunn (RKO Radio SSD) |
RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Leo McCarey
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Reporter Cary Grant goes undercover in Vienna to expose the husband of former dancer Ginger Rogers as a Nazi. He falls in love with Ginger in the process, and after she realizes that her husband is the personal "adviser" of none other than Hitler himself, they run off together. They end up in France, where Ginger is convinced to become a spy and returns to her husband. Grant goes after her, of course, leading to more drama and/or melodrama. It is that uneasy mixture that keeps the film from becoming a complete success, with harrowing scenes inside a concentration camp along side cutesy romantic flirtation. More of the former and less of the latter would have made for a more compelling story.
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