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Remains To Be Seen

1953, Movie, NR, 89 mins

Remains To Be Seen: Review

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Johnson plays the manager of a Park Avenue apartment building who finds a dead tenant. He immediately phones the dead man's lawyer who, in turn, contacts the deceased's niece, Allyson, a singer in a jazz band, and requests that she come and take care of things. Allyson has never liked her millionaire uncle, but she comes anyway. This sets the scene for a boring mystery in which Lansbury tries to get hold of the deceased man's money. She has problems with Allyson, who decides to accept the inheritance so Lansbury won't get her hands on it. Lansbury attempts to hypnotize Allyson into jumping off the balcony, but Johnson saves the day by blaring the radio. Johnson manages to uncover the plot by Lansbury and crooked doctor Beal, and through his efforts hitches up with Allyson and with her band. (In addition to managing the apartment building, Johnson plays the drums.) Neither Allyson nor Johnson are very convincing in their roles, with the rest of the cast overplaying their parts terribly. The setting of the dead man's apartment is supposedly exotic and eerie, but it looks anything but that. A few songs act as a relief to the story: "Too Marvelous for Words," "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" (sung by June Allyson, Van Johnson), and "Taking a Chance on Love" (sung by Dorothy Dandridge). This film was to be Allyson's last as a contract player for MGM. She was anxious to be move beyond the girl-next-door parts with which she made her name, but which no longer seemed believable from an actress of her age. MGM appeared unwilling or unable to come up with the parts she needed to make this transition. leave a comment
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