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Paramount. Director Leslie Fenton; Producer P. J. Wolfson; Screenplay P. J. Wolfson, Arthur Sheekman; Camera John F. Seitz; Editor William Shea; Music Robert Emmett Dolan; Art Director Hans Dreier, Henry Bumstead

Alan Ladd
Veronica Lake
Wally Cassell
Douglas Dick
Morris Carnovsky

Alan Ladd fans and other followers of high adventure will like Saigon. It's strictly pulp-fiction stuff with a flair for good characterizations and plenty of action. P. J. Wolfson, in his production and co-scripting chore with Arthur Sheekman, has paid close attention to the little details that will catch audience interest.

Performers' characters are well-established and they know what to do with them under Leslie Fenton's able direction. Latter keeps the action high and the interest unflagging in telling the saga of three ex-army fliers who go adventuring in Saigon with a beautiful blonde.

There's a load of menacing and mysterious characters, a plane crash, a jungle boatride and lushly backgrounded Saigon to point up action and intrigue before finale. Music score aids plotting, and camera work is sharp in depicting settings.

Ladd is at home as the ex-army flier, with Wally Cassell as a happy-go-lucky air sergeant, selling plenty of chuckles. Lake aptly fits the blonde siren role.

(B&W) Extract of a review from 1948. Running time: 93 MIN.

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