MOVIGOER

The main virtue of "The Lady Has Plans" is that while Nazi spies, hidden blueprints and intrigue abound throughout, they are at all times kept subservient to the main aim of being amusing. The result is a lightweight comedy which has Lisbon and the war as a background but no pretensions to social significance. It is, in fact, concerned mainly with the attempts of various espionage agents to uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture leering suggestively at Paulette's back and taking snapshots of it while she is in the shower. She alternately cowers and bristles at all this, but the end sees her foiling the heavies and winning her man. Happily, this, is accomplished with a minimum of seriousness, and the proceedings are frothy but funny.