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It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Glorifies Cheating
This movie disappointed me even when I saw it as a very young kid, in a movie theater, in the late 50s. The older I got, the more I disliked the way it glorified cheating and the more I became disgusted with the way critics glorified the movie. I wonder how many kids watching that movie grew up to be cheaters in their work.
The only real saving grace of this movie is at the end, when the cheater actually wins a game on his own. Even then, he shows no remorse for his having gotten to the "big" game by cheating. The win seems only to justify his earlier cheating.
In short, this movie does nothing more than sell the notion that the end, in this case winning the world series, justifies the means used to reach that end, cheating.
I'm sorry that old Ray Milland, a great actor, stooped to the level required to star in this loser of a movie.