Pretty much of a wreck of a film. Which is a shame, considering the talents of the beautiful Madeleine Carroll, the whimsical and as good as the best of movie comedians Fred MacMurray, the virtually unused Akim Tamiroff (save for the 2 scenes where he is cleaning the windows in heavy rain and again in heavy snow which I guess were supposed to be funny), the acerbic Helen Broderick. Too much of a back and forth kind of thing with the little moppet intruding her being into almost all the scenes, screeching and whining her lines giving child actors through out the world a bad name. Was it the director or just the forced energy of the child's own natural (or lack thereof) talents that insisted she display herself so annoyingly and endlessly into any potentially good moment of the movie. Give me Margaret O'Brien or Baby Leroy or Jackie "Butch" Jenkins or Dickie Moore or, of course, the multi-talented Temple any time and that would turn any movie around for the better. Maybe. But aside from that, not really much of a script, Carroll and MacMurray could not salvage any of it.
Review of Honeymoon in Bali
