The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1948

The Bride Goes Wild (MGM) is a title that goes begging for any conceivable meaning until the last reel. But those who put aside that negligible worry may have a rather good time at it.

Van Johnson is "Uncle Bumps," a writer of stories for children who loathes the little pests as wholeheartedly as he likes .liquor and girls. June Allyson, a somewhat prim (but non-bespectacled) Vermont schoolteacher, wins a contest to illustrate his forthcoming book, The Bashful Bull. When she meets Uncle Bumps, whom she has always idolized, he gets her drunkĀ—a state...

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