Arise My Love (1940 Mitchell Leisen)

Early Brackett / Wilder has great beginning in which condemned Spanish Civil War flyer Ray Milland is saved by plucky journalist Claudette Colbert pretending to be his wife: an opening as good as most films' finales. Flag-waving final act firmly says 'wake up America and join the war'. One of Charles Lang's 18 Oscar nominations.

Good gag with sticking plaster. Walter Abel funny as newspaper boss. Plus Dennis O'Keefe, George Zucco.

Edited by Doane Harrison, for Paramount.