Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 12, 1953

Never Wave at a WAC (Independent Artists; RKO Radio) suggests that the ladies of the Women's Army Corps, like the Northwest Mounties, always get their man. The heroines of this romantic recruiting poster are a spoiled Washington hostess (Rosalind Russell) and a stripteaser named Danger O'Dowd (Marie Wilson). Enlistment in the WAC does both of them good. Haughty Rosalind Russell becomes simple and sincere and is reunited with her ex-husband (Paul Douglas). The stripteaser finds true love with a quartermaster sergeant (Leif Erickson).

Besides romance, Never Wave at a WAC offers some wacky comedy....

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