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Thursday, September 13, 2018


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     Petticoat Fever
1936  NR  COMEDY  1h 20min
CAST— Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery
MUSIC— Dr. William Axt  DIRECTOR— George Fitzmaurice  BASED ON— Petticoat Fever (play), by Mark Reed

     In this obscure little film, a wireless radio operator stationed in the arctic lives an excruciatingly dull existence. He plays checkers by radio with lost ships at sea and the weekly mail is a monumental event. If this mirrors your life in any way, apologies are in order. Anyway, the relentless boredom is broken when a plane crash-lands nearby and two people come stumbling in: the pilot and his fiancée. Well this certainly livens things up a bit. The radio operator (not having seen “a beautiful woman” in two years) falls instantly in love and automatically begins trying to charm her (in an obnoxious, almost creepy way, one might add). The rest of the film is him trying to win her over and simultaneously trying to keep them from leaving the arctic. Right away one begins to wonder if this cabin fever afflicted idiot is swept up in love or just plain ol’ lust. Either way, the end results leave the viewer a bit “cold”.
OUR RATING— **

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