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Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, this story doesn't make much of a movie. It is not remarkably interesting this time. Yet it is more mature, real and touching by a good deal than the story's basic stencil might lead you to expect. Jerome Chodorov's dialogue is sometimes merely slick but often, for all its slickness, it bears a cousinly relation to the talk of real people. Robert Young may seem too pleasant a sort to carry much weight as a gay seducer, until you remember how markedly pleasant some of them are. Miss Day gets across enough of the young woman's sufferings, palpitations and efforts at self-defense to make even her beauty an afterthought, if a happy one.
Miss Harding's role is superfluous in any strict story sense, but it is the first in a long time that has given her talents any room to move around in, and she makes the most of it. Except in one good, ugly scene with Young, the picture goes soft and cute whenever promising Newcomer Bill Williams appears. But that seems to be less the actor's mistake than that of Director Lewis (The Uninvited) Allen, who makes very few others in this picture.