An American reporter runs a home for World War II orphans in Paris. Back home, his neglected fiancee gives him an ultimatum. He fails to comply, and she gets engaged to her millionaire boss. He flies back to America with the purpose to win her back. He takes two of the orphans with him.
Awful musical comedy, with one of the most unconvincing endings in film history. The plot bets on schmaltz. It's like that: you start out feeling solidary to all the abandoned children of the world, and then, all of a sudden, they decide that the script can afford only two of them (and the second one is initially an extra burden which prompts a sigh of fatigue in the protagonist). And you go along, and are, all of a sudden, not overconcerned with the remaining children. A curious thing for modern viewers is to witness what the old sensibilities had to say about catcalls. They were seen as a positive thing. Well, I will not count this as a merit of the film. Everybody thought catcalls were a positive thing in 1951.
Rating: 13
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