review for Four Girls in White on AllMovie

Four Girls in White is a B-movie that really shouldn't be as enjoyable as it is. Now, enjoyable doesn't necessarily mean "very good," mind you. There are plenty of things that don't work in Girls, starting with the fact that it mixes genres rather haphazardly -- a comedy one minute, a romance another, a medical melodrama frequently, and finally, toward the end, a disaster flick. All of this switching back and forth isn't handled especially smoothly in either Dorothy Yost's screenplay or S. Sylvan Simon's direction -- and considering the short running time of the film, some of the lurching is really noticeable. There's also a major problem involving the lead character, played by Florence Rice, whose selfishness goes rather too far for it to be redeemed by her eventual realization of what her actions have wrought. But in spite of all that, Girls has a certain appeal to it. The players don't seem to care that they're asked to swing in so many directions, and there's something infectious about the whole silly plot. And while the cast is not filled with top-drawer star players, it's a very nifty set of people. Rice does extremely well with the most difficult part, and Mary Howard is very effective as the most tragic character. Una Merkel and Buddy Ebsen's comic relief is most welcome, and Ann Rutherford is perky fun.