Various rantings on movies, books about movies, and other things to do with movies
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Movie review – Shayne #5 – “Just off Broadway” (1943) **1/2
Shayne is a juror who tries solving the case in which he is involved. The tone is very light (Shayne goes undercover as a Swedish janitor, and once again pretends to be a girl’s fiancee) so it’s a surprise that he slaps a dame – that doesn’t feel like Lloyd Nolan’s Mike. Phil Silvers, as a publicist, gives some class to the support cast and Marjorie Weaver is fun as a girl reporter, another old friend of Shayne’s. There is a midget, too, an old friend of Shayne's - it was that sort of series. Good fun, apart from the scene where he hits the girl.
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