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Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied convoys with robot-planes.
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"This would be OK as a wartime musical, praying that ships get back to the harbours of Home. But Robert Young's character in infuriating. The gags, the pratfalls aren't funny, or they require the mindset of the Three Stooges. This is supposed to be an investigative reporter? Classy Jeanette MacDonald is supposed to fall for this goofball? But what saves the movie, as other have noted, is Ethel Waters. Sure, she's dressed as a maid until she gets to do a stage number. And Dooley Wilson, who watches that number, is dressed as an "A-rab." And of course there's nobody ..."
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At one point in the film, when "Homer" asks "Marcia" if she has ever been to San Francisco, she replies "Once with Gable and Tracy and the joint fell apart," referring to the very popular 1936 M-G-M film "San Francisco" in which Jeanette MacDonald co-starred with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy.
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Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied convoys with robot-planes.