The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1941

A Yank in the R.A.F. (20th Century-Fox) shows Tyrone Power in modern dress —and about time. As a cocky American pilot with an eye for the ladies, dark-eyed Tyrone is a Yank who fights at Dunkirk with the R.A.F. Although he feels called upon from time to time to refer to himself as "a worm," his performance is not as bad as all that, is pleasantly human.

Yank's title adequately prefigures its plot as well as the picture's chief weakness: too much Yank, too little R.A.F. The business of getting a London cabaret queen...

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