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magazine called the film an "abysmal... load of old codswallop... These sorts of movies are hard to pull off for directors – Henry King and John Ford could do it, but it's beyond Norman McLeod here. Lake seems awkward. Maybe with color and more elaborate musical numbers it might have gone over. But
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The romantic Candy is in town with her fiancé Horace
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