Another Sturges which, when analysed, reveals a number of astonishingly word perfect and well-filmed long takes (by John Seitz, with his beautiful blacks). Film is not quite as funny as the golden group at the top of the Sturges oeuvre. Great cast full of familiars - led by William Demarest, Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn (seeing him together in one scene with Franklin Pangborn at the train station is a joy to behold). Stuart Gilmore then not given much to cut.
And you have to pay attention. At bar scene, when Bracken says "they bled and died" while a cash register rings in the background - that little touch surely was planned?
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