GeoPierpont I kept ignoring all the Maisie movie titles as they seemed superficial, supercilious, and rather bland entertainment. However, this plot was so insane I found it most appealing to my great amusement.If you have a Navy Fly Boy friend who can handle any helicopter with adroit skill, have him or her watch this one, they will just bowl over with laughter especially with the er, cell phone scene in the helo....How empowering for women it must have been to be seen in such a capable light to read blueprints, weld, build behemoth warcrafts, AND have superb secretarial skills!! Ann Southern is a delight in her transformational role from frump to triumphant and is most endearing. I look forward to extending my hand to the remaining series I have lost out thus far.Great to see the 1941 aerial views of downtown Los Angeles and the Rose Bowl which I have attended recently. High recommend!! Enjoy.

MartinHafer The casting for "Up Goes Maisie" is rather strange. After all, a few years earlier George Murphy was cast as Maisie's boyfriend in "Ringside Maisie" and here he is again as Maisie's boyfriend--and Murphy is NOT playing the same guy in both films! This must have been a bit confusing to audience members who went to both movies--especially since she becomes engaged to both guys! Maisie has just graduated from Business School and her prospects are quite good. However, inexplicably, she has trouble getting work because every time she goes to apply for a job she is sexually harassed. It's all very silly, as they portray Ann Sothern as if she's hotter than Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner put together. The bottom line is that they lay this angle on way too thick and it seemed like sloppy writing to have the 37 year-old actress playing such a sexual magnet.Eventually, Maisie gets a job with Mr. Morton and his team of workers who are trying to build a prototype helicopter. She not only is the secretary but does some of the welding and checks the books. And, since she is a sexual magnet, soon Mr. Morton (Murphy) is head-over-heels for her and asks her to marry him. However, neither is aware that a very manipulative woman (Hillary Brooke) and her rich daddy will do anything to ensure that the project fails--so that the evil woman can catch Morton on the rebound--as well as steal his helicopter plans. So, they need to discredit Maisie and make sure that the 'copter is a dud. Can Maisie and the gang spot the ruse? And, will Maisie FINALLY get her happy ending? So is this film any good? Well, it does have its problems. As I mentioned above, making Maisie so sexually appealing was pretty dumb and was handled poorly. Additionally, Stephen McNally's character was obviously evil he first time the camera hit him. He was just too obvious and made you wonder why the characters didn't recognize this. The same could be said for Hillary Brooke. There is also a sequence near the end where Maisie is supposedly flying the helicopter--and you can pretty clearly see the string on the model! Despite all this, it's still a cute film and is quite watchable--as are all the Maisie films. But it does suffer from a few problems which should have been ironed out first. It's just not up to the usual higher standards for the series.

gridoon2018 "Up Goes Maisie" has an interesting start, which makes a social statement on how hard it was for a woman to find a decent steady job in post-WWII America without having to compromise for the unwanted advances of dirty-minded middle-aged bosses who don't understand the meaning of the word "no"; things haven't changed so much over the years, I guess, though the men (usually) go at it more discreetly these days. The climax is also pretty crazy, with Maisie flying a helicopter all on her own. But the rest of the movie is almost determinedly average. Did we really have to know exactly who the bad guys / two-timers are all along? How can Maisie fall in such deep love with a man so quickly? And why was a big catfight between Maisie and Hillary Brooke's character set up so carefully and then never followed through? (Maisie hits her once with her knee and it's all over). Rhetorical questions. ** out of 4.

blanche-2 This is Maisie's second to last film in the series starring Ann Sothern that ran from 1939 to 1947. Some of them were better than others. This one is in the category of okay. During the war, Maisie was a riveter (Swing Shift Maisie and Maisie Goes to Reno, when she was burnt out and needed a vacation). Now post-war, she needs a new job, something steady. After graduating from business school, she eventually gets a job with an inventor (George Murphy) who is building a helicopter using his own secret invention. Little does he know, someone on his team (who is so obvious it's ridiculous) is trying to steal the drawings from him. Stephen McNally, Ray Collins and Hillary Brooke are featured.The Maisie movies are, of course, very dated today, but the premise is good - Maisie is a performer who occasionally gets work - usually she's stranded on the way to a job and ends up somewhere else, like in the Congo or on a farm. Ann Sothern is delightful as the street-smart, flashily dressed man magnet. These were B movies churned out probably in days, and the scripts vary from good to lousy along with Sothern's costars, which included James Craig, John Hodiak, Lee Bowman, John Carroll, Lew Ayres and Red Skelton - how's that for variety of up and comings and down and goings? Mildly entertaining.