D: George Beck. Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest, Francis Sullivan, Margalo Gillmore, Lon Chaney, Jr, Sheldon Leonard, Marvin Kaplan, Glenn Anders, Allen Jenkins, Elisha Cook, Jr, Hans Conried. Loud, limp black comedy with Granger and Winters miscast as young marrieds who take in a dog trained to act as a link between two gangs in a smuggling scheme. Good supporting cast is wasted. The title song was cowritten by Buddy Ebsen!

D: Herman Hoffman. Jeff Richards, Edmund Gwenn, Dean Jagger, Sally Fraser. Film uses gimmick of having the canine star tell his life story from slums to luxury. Retitled: BAR SINISTER. CinemaScope.

D: Sam Wood. Groucho, Harpo, Chico Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Esther Muir, Margaret Dumont, Douglass Dumbrille, Sig Ruman, Dorothy Dandridge. The Marxes wreak havoc at a sanitorium, where wealthy hypochondriac Dumont is the leading patient; often uproarious comedy features some of the trio's funniest set pieces (Chico selling race tips, the seduction scene, etc.). A perfunctory storyline and unmemorable songs keep it from topping its immediate predecessor, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA... but the comedy content is sensational.

D: Archie Mayo. Groucho, Harpo, Chico Marx, Lisette Verea, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Dan Seymour, Sig Ruman. No classic, but many funny sequences in latter- day Marx outing, ferreting out Nazi spies in Casablanca hotel.