Shipboard comedy/drama that is weighted far too heavily toward the serious side of the scale. You can almost feel the laughs diminish as the body count increases and the largely humorless five detectives take over from Lombard and MacMurray. Until then, though, it's a fun cruise as Lombard does a fairly hilarious Garbo take off (not easy when you consider how often this impersonation has been done) and MacMurray has some effective zingers, as do William Frawley as his sidekick and Alison Skipworth as Lombard's rather Dumont-ish companion. In general though director William K. Howard, whose most notable credits include "The Power And The Glory" and "Fire Over England", seems adrift at sea with screwball. C plus.
Review of The Princess Comes Across
