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Blue, White and Perfect (1942)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 2/09

2/09: After watching Blue, White and Perfect, I was dying for a good, old fashioned detective movie because I never got the treatment.

I don't, for the life of me, think of Lloyd Nolan as anything but a bland, common, and boring guy. The direction veers off the track in a big way when the three characters (Shayne, O'Hara, and Shaw) talked about things that weren't relevant to the plot.

In regard to the twists, the surprise comes when O'Hara is revealed as an FBI agent, but isn't his feigned ability to speak Spanish a dead giveaway? How can the ship be devoid of passengers? And nobody raises the alarm while there's a shooting?

All in all, the film should be re-titled as Bland, Whatever and Dated.

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