Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

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43 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE Volume XIL No. 1 E HT Edward G. Robinson, with Jackie Jenkins and Margaret O'Brien, in "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes." OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES. Sentimental drama of family life on a Wisconsin farm. MGM. Directed by Roy Rowland. Screen play by Dalton Trumbo. Highly recommended. Dalton Trumbo, editor of Hollywood’s new magazine, The Screen Writer, has fashioned a notable screen play from George V. Martin’s novel, so that it comes to life on the screen with great warmth and tenderness. A saga of the commonplace, the film may raise questions in some minds as to the esthetic value of an apotheosis of simplicity. There can be no doubt as to the power of the appeal of the drama. By pointing up the longings, the devotion, and the occasional struggles with fire and flood on lonely farms, the film lifts the audience out of the ordinariness that besets simple lives. Edward G. Robinson proves his extraordinary versatility by playing a part as different from his gangster roles as day from night. Critics of Hollywood’s “failure to depict the American scene’’ will find here a film that is truly down to earth. w. L. ORDERS FROM TOKYO. Technicolor documentary film concerning Japanese atrocities in the Philippine Islands. Warner Bros. In the audience at the New York preview of this Technicolor documentary film produced in cooperation with the Government of the Philippines and the Office of Strategic Services, sat