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Yankee Fakir (Republic)
THIS “Fakir” must have snuck in when nobody was looking. He’s of no consequence, anyway, so it really won’t matter. Douglas Fowley is called upon to play him — a traveling pitchman, Yankee Davis, who comes with his partner to a small Arizona town, takes a room in Joan Woodbury’s house and then takes a hand in trying to solve the murder of her father.
It would have been much easier just to have washed his hands of the whole thing, bundled up Joan and her kid brother and taken them out of the town. This way, he has to get Clem Bevans to dress up and play his millionaire uncle who’s offering a prize to the chap who’ll expose the worst scoundrel in town. Douglas naively thinks this will smoke out the murderer, but all that does come floating in is some pretty bad movie-making.
You see only the back of the villain’s head until the end of the picture but you knew all along who he was. You can guess just about everything that will happen too, so you might as well stay home.
Your Reviewer Says: Big faker.
Copacabana (Coslow-UA)
GROUCHO MARX stalks through this, accompanied by zippy Carmen Miranda. If they’re enough to entertain you, then entertained you will be because that’s about all there is to the picture.
Groucho pretends he’s an agent for Carmen and gets so intrigued with the idea he sells her double to the famous Copacabana club. This means she wiggles through a South American act, then rushes away to simmer in a veil as one Mile. Fiji. Even Steve Cochran who runs the place is fooled.
That’s the plot — dressed up by a glimpse of fourteen “Copa Girls,” the brief appearance of New York night-life figures Louis Sobol, Abel Green and Earl Wilson, and with a song by Gloria Jean who’s grown up to be quite a personable if somewhat static young lady.
One Marx looks rather lonely; furthermore, for some people, one Marx may be one too many. Suit yourself on this — you have Carmen and Groucho to cheer or boo as the case may be.
Your Reviewer Says: Lots of nothing.
Best Pictures of the Month
Great Expectations Perils of Pauline The Adventuress
Best Performances
John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Finlay Currie, Anthony Wager in "Great Expectations’’
Betty Hutton, Billy De Wolfe William Demarest, Constance Collier in ” Perils of Pauline”
Deborah Kerr in "The Adventuress”