"Arise My Love" and head for the Paramount Theatre. For Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland are there, in a delightful movie that is charming to the last--or almost.
Outstanding among the current war-inspired films, this one begins a la Hemingway in Loyalist Spain, and proceeds by dint of skillful direction and Noel Cowardly dialogue right up to the present. It is built around the ancient girl reporter backbone, but manages, by the brilliant development throughout, to deemphasize this pleasantly.
The "reunion" of Milland and his "wife" in the offices of the Falangist general; the conversation on "three ways to get a woman" in the plane; the idyllic night in the woods of Compiegne; and the contrast as war and day break over the forest--these are the delicious drops in a goblet of directorial wine. It is a picture with a mood--and only the martial music of the final few moments mars the perfection of the whole.
The second feature, "Dancing on a Dime," is not worth a nickel.
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