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Information
- Year
- 1943
- Runtime
- 67 min.
- Director
- Roy Rowland
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 7.2
- Votes *
- 308
- Checks
- 32
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 6.3% (1:16)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
1943's A Stranger in Town is just light comedy, but I liked it. Frank Morgan plays a Supreme Court Justice who needs a break from the court room and takes a fishing vacation, except he keeps being drawn back into court so he can own a corrupt small-town mayor's agents. The trick is that they don't know who they're dealing with. Taking an interest in a young lawyer and mayoral candidate's career just makes the court room and political arena more appealing than the river bank. Its fun to watch to watch Morgan lead his crew into cleverly using local laws to get one over the bad guys and town grifters, and making passionate speeches about America for the better part of an hour. He also plays match-maker between his protégé and secretary, but that's a pretty useless as a plot device, a little bit of awkward romance that doesn't really have much space to develop. But Hollywood gonna wood, and it's not in the way or anything, just trite and pointless. 3 years 11 months ago -
