Review of She Learned About Sailors

I guess this is the sort of movie that pleases no-one - except for staunch admirers of EITHER Alice Faye OR Mitchell and Durant. Put me firmly in the former category. You either like the antics of Mitchell and Durant or you hate them. I hate them! They don't have just the two all-out, slam-me-around routines that dominate the second half of the movie, they have stacks of aggressively unfunny horseplay in the first half too. And what with Lew Ayres also filling up the scenery, there's not much left for Alice to do but smile and sing one song, namely "She Learned About Sailors". The script was not exactly first-rate to begin with, but it manages to get even more repetitious and boring before it finally winds up with the predictable conclusion that everyone in the audience can see coming from the moment the ambivalent Ayres character lays eyes on Alice. As a hero, Ayres is a bore. Not his fault -- just the rotten script and the don't-make-it-good-make-it-Wednesday- direction.