oscaralbert Review of None But the Lonely Heart

None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Archibald Leach is the best sharpshooter in Britain . . .

[6/10 · 3 May 2021]

. . . but he's spending World War Two playing arcade games, hugging lady cello players and stalking single moms. After resorting to a pseudonym for making a string of flops including THE AWFUL TOOTH (1937), CHOPPER (1937), BRINGING UP RABIES (1938), GONG A BIN (1939), HIS GIRL TUESDAY (1940), PUNXSUTAWNEY STORY (1940), NICKEL SERENADE (1941) plus ANTIMONY AND OLD DOILIES (1942), Archie returns to his beleaguered British Homeland for his next farce, NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944). Arch convincingly plays a draft dodger, the sort of malingering miscreant sure soon be called up by popular demand in The Fuhrer's Berlin bunker. In fact, some military historians credit Mr. Leach for inspiring the Battle of the Bulge. If Pitt and Quentin had not traveled back in time to wage their INGLORIOUS FURY, Archie may have lost WWII single-handed.