Movie #951 "The Bride Goes Wild" was a flick I caught on TCM the other night and it showed its age, I thought. I normally like June Allyson and Van Johnson, and they did well with what was given them here, but the storyline was ludicrous. It expected us to first of all believe that this terribly conservative woman who lives with her two aunts from a small town would get drunk with a guy she despised and whom she just met; then, she is supposed to so gullible that she believes that this guys has a little boy whom she takes a shine to. And that he has a girlfriend (Arlene Dahl) who has damaged him for life. Then, she falls for him (why?) until she finds out the boy isn't his --- Van Johnson plays such a cad, I wouldn't even want to know him, much less be married to him, but yep, you guessed it --- she is bride who should have run wildly the other way at the very end of the film! This is one of those films that gave romantic comedies a bad name, I think. Not an ounce of sense, if you ask me. Don't bother with this one.
The Bride Goes Wild (1948) --- I would give it 2 out of 5 stars.
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