Review of Three Hearts for Julia

I enjoyed this movie, finding it well acted and mostly well written. A movie about a female violinist, an all female orchestra, a conductor, and a writer/reporter made this film different from most. Ann Sothern was good, as usual, and seemed to know how to handle a violin. Apparently her father was a violinist, a fact which didn't surprise me after I saw this film. The only rough spot seemed to be Julia's kidnapping. That made the Melvyn Douglas' character seem a little extreme. Also the scene where Douglas was playing a saw in a bar was far fetched, since the availability of a saw in a bar seems unlikely. Otherwise I enjoyed the intelligent, cultured characters, the classical music, and the feminist edge of women musicians and an independent wife. The patriotic ending was well conceived.