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Carlos Thompson starred as a hard-boiled ace reporter, Ruth Leuwerik was his attractive wife. Their workaday trials and tribulations formed the undemanding content of the sentimental screenplay. En route to the altogether deserved happy-ending, the narrative involved a colourful collection of miscellaneous characters and often touching situations. Fortunately the two star's innate skill combined with a restrained tasteful direction to prevent what could so easily been a mawkish and maudlin wallow.
Carlos Thompson starred as a hard-boiled ace reporter, Ruth Leuwerik was his attractive wife. Their workaday trials and tribulations formed the undemanding content of the sentimental screenplay. En route to the altogether deserved happy-ending, the narrative involved a colourful collection of miscellaneous characters and often touching situations. Fortunately the two star's innate skill combined with a restrained tasteful direction to prevent what could so easily been a mawkish and maudlin wallow.