A Guy Named Joe (M.G.M.) is about a guy named Pete (Spencer Tracy).* Pete destroys a Nazi flattop, crashes and dies in the doing, soon finds himself in a lot of handsome mist, renewing that license to make pictures about the Hereafter which has lain fallow since Here Comes Mr. Jordan. It is Pete's business, his ghostly General (Lionel Barrymore) informs him, to join other dead airmen in teaching fledglings how to fly and fight, and to act in general like a genial anti-gremlin.
Invisible and inaudible to everyone except the audience, Pete takes...
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