They don't - and indeed can't - make 'em like this any more. Warner Brothers had already had one smash wartime hit with Stage Door Canteen, a star-studded musical compendium, and aimed to repeat the trick with this similar project, spun round an eggshell-thin plot about a young soldier who dreams of meeting his favourite film star. Just as well she turns out to be Joan Leslie, who was under contract to the studio. Pretty well the whole Warner roster is on parade (with the exception of Humphrey Bogart) and any film that has a violin duet of The Bee from Joseph Szigeti and Jack Benny has to be worth watching. Roy Rogers pops in (not forgetting Trigger) to warble one of his greatest hits, Don't Fence Me In. Wartime audiences wept buckets at the final scene in Union Station, a hankie-inducing finish to a dazzling show.


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