I'm glad I didn't see it at that time, because I suspect I would have found that unforgiveable and this sounds like a movie which deserves to be forgiven for it.
I feel that I should stress even more than usual that this is a movie with a lot of problems—I don't know if I can chalk it up to the change in directors or just the script and the production schedule, but I really would have cut the prologue and shortened the ending substantially, especially the bit where it goes straight into undercranked cartoon territory; also the running gag about the lieutenant not believing in the ghost has a cute payoff, but I'm not sure about Cuffy's friend who calls himself a "Hoboken Indian." (I applaud the attempt to represent a Native character just hanging out in the army like anyone else, but it would have been nicer if he weren't a genial lunkhead.) There's just something in it worth coming back to, and I'd watch it again if I could find it anywhere online.
As always, your write-up is lovely.
Thank you. Maybe I should tackle The Enchanted Cottage (1945) next.
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I feel that I should stress even more than usual that this is a movie with a lot of problems—I don't know if I can chalk it up to the change in directors or just the script and the production schedule, but I really would have cut the prologue and shortened the ending substantially, especially the bit where it goes straight into undercranked cartoon territory; also the running gag about the lieutenant not believing in the ghost has a cute payoff, but I'm not sure about Cuffy's friend who calls himself a "Hoboken Indian." (I applaud the attempt to represent a Native character just hanging out in the army like anyone else, but it would have been nicer if he weren't a genial lunkhead.) There's just something in it worth coming back to, and I'd watch it again if I could find it anywhere online.
As always, your write-up is lovely.
Thank you. Maybe I should tackle The Enchanted Cottage (1945) next.