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Never saw this before, but it's not a bad series. Reminds me a lot of the long-running radio show, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, which went off the air in September 1962. It's a great concept for a show: an insurance guy who has a different adventure with each client, and who's always on the side of decency and honesty.

This movie could have been quite good. As it is, however, the music is often quite out of place for 1941 and the story doesn't get moving until well after an hour has gone by. That said, it is an important film because not many American films have ever mentioned the violation of Japanese-Americans' civil rights during the war years.

This film has lots of good ingredients. Good acting, reasonably good cinematography, and nice old cars. But the principal relationship, between Granger (O'Brien) and his moll, just does not work. He is enraged for pretty much the whole movie, and there is very little to like in the Granger character. Yet a beautiful, sensitive woman (whose presence is often signified by a gentle violin tune) decides she loves him. Huh? What's to love? The principal element of suspense (will he get caught and by whom) is barely exploited for much of the film. In the end, one just doesn't much care what happens to anyone in this film. That doesn't make it a film noir; it makes it dull.

This is a film with pretty good performances and a good cast, but a painfully slow pace that will have you looking at a clock to see when the end is coming.

The first thing that will draw you to this utterly original series is the extraordinary cinematography. If you stick with it -- not expecting Twilight Zone nor One Step Beyond -- it will reward you mightily. For details, read other reviews. I'm just here to put in my vote and rave about this.

This is the closest we'll ever get to seeing the wonderful Marilyn Miller on stage in her role as Sunny. The title song and the memorable "Who" were some of the most popular tunes in the late '20s, as played by George Olsen and His Music (who not only played in the Broadway production but cut a record with those songs on it.) It's rather interesting that WB made this movie right at the end of the musical era: had the stock market crash happened two years later, this might well have been an color production. It was certainly intended to be a blockbuster, and if only for that reason it's worth watching -- to see what constituted "popular" in a different era.

My dear girlfriend and I saw this today, and were very pleasantly entertained. The movie has a good message, but it really wasn't fleshed out enough. Still, it merits much good discussion with youngsters and anyone else who's environmentally unaware of the perils facing our oceans. I'm a second grade teacher and would love to show this movie to my young students. For one thing, and as one can learn from the trailers, it deals with a "differently-abled" penguin who can't do what his elders require of him. Rather than give up and conform (when he knows he can't), he insists on being himself. This leads to some interesting film-making with incredible animation. I agree that there may be too many tunes crammed into this movie, but what the heck, my feet kept tapping the theater floor.