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Joe Gimlet (Lee Tracy) is a simple tobacco store owner struggling to get by in New York City. His friend Ted is suddenly rich after marrying wealthy Elvira (Peggy Shannon), a girl which Joe could have married in the past. Ted offers him a lucrative deal, but his wife Mary (Mae Clarke) rejects it. Joe and Mary have a fight. Joe vows to marry the girl with the money next time around. He gets hit by a car and wakes up 20 years in the past. He gets to choose again.

The problem is that Joe needs to show his love for Mary at the beginning. The story should be a choice between love and money. Joe is the author of his own difficulties. He could still marry Mary while doing business with Elvira's father. That's the other path. The movie should make Elvira more horrible before their marriage. I get the idea behind the attempt, but it's not completely working here. The Three Stooges appear in a film for the first time without Ted Healy although they are not the Stooges in this.

This documentary was commissioned by the US Department of War. In a way, winners write the history. It is possible to see this as propaganda, but they mostly keep to the straight and narrow.

This covers the trial against the major figures of the Nazi regime in 1945 and 1946. It also covers the history of the conflict like a prosecutor laying out the facts of the case. The film is careful to use Hitler's own words against him by showing his lies, time and time again. They are also using footages that have been carefully gathered of Nazi atrocities. That is the true value of this project. It is an archive of history so that one can't forget. This is more than simple propaganda.