Clever Satire On Nazis In New Film At Regent

Northern Advocate, 2 October 1943, Page 4

Clever Satire On Nazis In New Film At Regent

Clever satire on the Nazi system, with humour and excitement of British espionage in Holland, combine to make “A Yank in Dutch,” which had its first New Zealand screening at the Regent Theatre last night, great entertainment. The producers have not endeavoured to make the film a heavy and realistic drama, but have exploited the possibilities of holding up to ridicule the Nazi military system. The horrors of enemy occupation have been ignored, and the humour extracted, with the addition of sufficient realism of efforts to foil the hated enemy to hold the rapt attention of the audience and cause hearty laughter. The story concerns an American, Franchot Tone, flying for the Royal Air Force, who is shot down in Holland and befriended by a patriotic "Dutch family, which adopts him as a son and allows him to impersonate the husband of a divorce-seeking daughter-in-law (Joan Bennett), despite the presence in the house of an odious Nazi officer (Allyn Joslyn) intent on making a love conquest.- The outwitting cf the Nazis, and the passages between the supposed husband and wife are highlights of an enjoyable film. The second feautre' “Whispering Ghosts” is a laughable murder mystery. '