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Overview
Young Ideas is an American comedy romance film first released in 1943,
directed by Jules Dassin.
The film stars Susan Peters, Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor, Elliott Reid and Richard Carlson.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
When best-selling author Josephine Evans mysteriously disappears, her
agent Adam Trent appeals to her children, Jeff and Susan, to find her
and bring her back to New York. To their horror, the
siblings discover that their mother has married Michael Kingsley, the
chemistry professor of a small town college. Deciding that
the match is hardly a suitable one – Kingsley is too old and intends to
put an end to his wife’s writing career – Jeff and Susan set about
wrecking their marriage...
Film Review
Anyone familiar with the work of filmmaker Jules Dassin will be
surprised that, in addition to some stunning examples of film noir -
such as The Naked City (1948)
and Du rififi chez les hommes
(1955) – he also turned his hand to such lowbrow fare as this. Young Ideas is a predictable, not
very cleverly scripted comedy, typical of mid-1940s Hollywood, which
fails to match up to the more sophisticated romantic comedies of such
masters as Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch. Whilst the film
has a tendency towards silliness, it is mildly entertaining, although
such stars as Herbert Marshall and Mary Astor are clearly wasted in
this kind of juvenile farce, a forerunner of the family-based TV sitcom.
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