Review of Something in the Wind

Deanna Durbin fans are going to want to check out Something in the Wind. Not only does she get an interesting, entertaining story to sing through, but she looks very pretty with her curly, cropped 'do. She sings the title song as well as several others as she falls in love with John Dall against her better judgment, since they're both trying to swindle each other out of a million dollars. John is engaged to Helena Carter, but his younger brother Donald O'Connor is in love with her and anxious for Deanna to cause trouble. At first, it's just an act, but when they spend more time together and sing together, Deanna and John find their feelings are real.

He doesn't get first billing, or a shot at the leading lady, but Donald O'Connor is given quite the spotlight in this musical comedy. In the ridiculous song "I Love a Mystery" that you think no one in the world could save, Donald O'Connor performs a spastic, manic, rumbling, tumbling, dance routine that gives "Make 'Em Laugh" a run for its money. If you aren't watching it for that, you can catch Donald doing a Cary Grant impersonation for ten seconds, or dancing a comical ballet with women significantly taller and beefier than him, whom he repeatedly drops. It's hard to imagine that scrappy, young kid fighting in WWII just two years earlier, when in this movie he hardly seems old enough to shave.