The Sailor Takes a Wife (M-G-M). In the surest-fire Hollywood tradition, a sailor (Robert Walker) meets a girl (June Allyson) in Manhattan. He sweet-talks and kisses her in a taxi in Central Park, marries her that same night in Connecticut before going back to his ship. It is all very fast, young and foolish.
But a gayer younglove yarn than Sailor rarely turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The...
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