Stowaway (1936)
5/10
Not passing the test of time.
24 December 2023
There's really no use in trying to tell the plot of this movie, because you'll have got it after the first ten minutes. After this lapse of time, there's really nothing happening: you can devise all the turns of the film (if there were any) until the end. So, boredom is assured, for today's audiences.

They could have thought otherways as back as in 1936, and the growing fame of child-actress diva Shirley Temple might have contributed to the overrated evaluation of "Stowaway", over-evaluation that evidently continues until today, judging by the high mark the film gets in this very same IMDb platform.

I can't point out any positive feature: the acting is nothing more than (low-)standard (and far below the standard in the case of the Colonel, a character wholly unnecessary). Temple herself doesn't rise above old-fashioned cuteness and monkeyish gestures that, nowadays, appear not only out-of-date, but even detrimental to the dignity of children.
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