ksf-2 Review of Swing Shift Maisie

Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

good WW II flick - Maisie does it again - may contain spoilers

[6/10 · 18 October 2007]

May contain Spoilers ** Ann Sothern is Maisie Ravier during the war, in the usual "everybody doing their part for the war effort" movie. After Ann made all those sweetheart mix- up movies with Gene Raymond in the 1930s, she starred in the "Maisie" series, with different leading men. Here, Jim Craig is a pilot Breezy Mclaughlin, who wants to serve, but his boss writes a letter keeping him out of the service. Maisie ends up going to work when she can't produce a birth certificate to join up. At one point, she comes across a gas filled room where a girl is trying to commit suicide, and the first thing she does is turn on the electric fan... Now it seems to me, in a room filled with gas, one probably shouldn't switch on the electric fan, but that's just me. Anyhoo...Jean Wilson plays "Iris" who tries to commit suicide, and falls for Breezy. (When she says "I won a beauty contest back home, and I want to get into pictures" apparently that was Jean's real life story, and she HAD been in pictures 10 years, but no well-known starring roles.) You know when Breezy says "We're one big happy family!" that all hell will break loose pretty soon, and they are fighting over him. Entertaining, but no big surprises.