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Government Girl

1943, Movie, NR, 94 mins

Government Girl: Review

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Famed screenwriter Dudley Nichols (STAGECOACH, 1939; THE INFORMER, 1935; BRINGING UP BABY, 1938) tried his hand at producing, directing, and writing and came up with a dud. Tufts is a successful Detroit auto executive brought to Washington, D.C., to help speed up the wartime bomber output. De Havilland plays the loyal secretary who guides him through the mounds of entangling red tape that Tufts constantly finds himself caught in. Fed up with the bureaucracy, Tufts goes on the rampage and cuts through channels, short-circuiting the system. He soon finds himself hauled before a Senate investigating committee, but he is acquitted thanks to an eloquent appeal on his behalf by de Havilland, who browbeats the senators into submission with her "after all, there's a war on!" declarations. Interlaced with this lame narrative is a preponderance of subplots that yank the film in a dozen different, unfocused directions. De Havilland gives one of her weakest performances (she didn't want to do the film in the first place) and Tufts is . . . well, Tufts. Nichols would try his hand at directing twice more (SISTER KENNY, 1946, a modest success; and MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, 1947, a failure) before giving up for awhile and returning to writing. leave a comment
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