Review of Local Boy Makes Good

I mean, it's nice to see Joe E. Brown playing a real character (meek, bookish, neurotic) instead of a gag machine, and Ruth Hall is charming, but Dorothy Lee's character is the real surprise here: they could have made her into a shallow, vain beauty, or an idiot, or a b*tch, but instead they made her intelligent and quirky; her "psychoanalysis session" with Brown is certainly the highlight of the picture. **1/2 out of 4.