8/10
This thinly veiled drawn-from-current-events biographical picture . . .
14 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
. . . details the sordid Real Life back story of a then contemporary notable (and grossly over-rated) Tinsel Town blowhard, Marion Mitchell "Duke-the-family-mutt" Morrison. Mr. Dexter's spot-on performance nails the role of embodying this self-styled Duke (whose stage moniker here--"Dane"--rhymes with loser Morrison's screen alias surname), as a bloated buffoon who claims that he sometimes salutes himself since he specializes in pretending to be such a wide variety of bogus warriors from every conceivable branch of the military services on the Big Screen. Like the rest of Hollywood Village, the makers of TWENTY PLUS TWO knew this deviant Duke to be a notorious panderer in Real Life, making drunken forays into Mexico to marry street-walkers, riding Hogs up and down L.A.'s boulevards with henchman War Bonds clubbing out the teeth of any Gay-looking pedestrians and ratting out the fellow Socialist buddies, cronies and friends of his Youth to Witch Hunters to save his own skin. As ACTUAL war hero "Tom" growls to fake soldier Dane, "You've got a yellow streak down your back a foot wide!"
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