The film gets off to a rocky start. Walter Brennan seems out of place, and Cornel Wilde’s French accent feels awkward and unconvincing. He plays a man who has recently traveled from France to Philadelphia for the US Centennial Exposition, and quickly finds himself caught between two sisters, Jeanne Craine ("Julie") and Linda Darnell ("Edith"), both vying for his attention. The central question of which sister he’ll c…