"Mr. Soft Touch" takes forever to really get going, and even when it does it's only nominally entertaining.
Glenn Ford spends the first half of the movie wandering around a community shelter, where he's hunkered down to hide from thugs who are after him. He flirts a lot with Evelyn Keyes, who looks adorable in this but doesn't get much to do. Ford has a charming, winning screen presence, so it's easy enough to hang out with him for a bit, but if you came here looking for a noir, you might be disappointed.
The noir part kicks in in the last half hour or so, and there are some shootouts and a burning building to escape from. The ending leaves us hanging -- Ford has been shot and lies in the arms of his love, but whether he dies or lives to see another day we'll never know.
Grade: B.
Glenn Ford spends the first half of the movie wandering around a community shelter, where he's hunkered down to hide from thugs who are after him. He flirts a lot with Evelyn Keyes, who looks adorable in this but doesn't get much to do. Ford has a charming, winning screen presence, so it's easy enough to hang out with him for a bit, but if you came here looking for a noir, you might be disappointed.
The noir part kicks in in the last half hour or so, and there are some shootouts and a burning building to escape from. The ending leaves us hanging -- Ford has been shot and lies in the arms of his love, but whether he dies or lives to see another day we'll never know.
Grade: B.