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      April Showers

      1948 1h 34m Musical List
      Reviews A circa-1900 vaudevillian (Jack Carson) sobers up to wrest his wife (Ann Sothern) and son from a sleazy manager (Robert Alda) handling their act. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Ann Sothern is an irreplaceable talent, and Jack Carson is always excellent. Young Bobby Ellis provides life to the fictional act and livens up the movie. The script needed a lot of polish it never got -- and would have been better if they hadn't followed Buster Keaton's storyline and simply went with a fictionalized account, leaving out the alcoholism that Carson so readily, and so inexplicably, runs to. Things go bad for a while, so the first thing you do is -- become an alcoholic, quit working, and give up your wife and kid? Not too realistic, then or now, but a typical Hollywood ploy. Carson wasn't an alcoholic and this doesn't play well or help the film in any way. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A circa-1900 vaudevillian (Jack Carson) sobers up to wrest his wife (Ann Sothern) and son from a sleazy manager (Robert Alda) handling their act.
      Director
      James V. Kern
      Screenwriter
      Peter Milne
      Production Co
      Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
      Genre
      Musical
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jan 5, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 34m