Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

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MIDOL 8 RELIEVES FUNCTIONAL PERIODIC PAIN V INDICATES PICTURE WAS RATED "GOOD" WHEN REVIEWED S* INDICATES PICTURE WAS RATED "VERY GOOD" WHEN REVIEWED SVV INDICATES PICTURE WAS RATED "OUTSTANDING" WHEN REVIEWED \/AIR FORCE — Warners: One of tbe most exciting air pictures ever filmed, with suspense riding with the crew of the Mary Ann, an American bomber, from the moment it lifts into the air through the Jap attack at P^arl Harbor to Wake Island and Manila. John Garfield does an excellent job as the head gunner and Gig Young, Jim Brown, George Tobias and the rest of the cast deserve special mention (April) /AIR RAID WARDENS— M-G-M: You'll laugh steadily as you watch Laurel and Hardy try to enlist in every branch of the service, only to be turned down, until they return home to become air-raid wardens. Every possible blunder known to man is committed by the boys until, on their own, they finally round up a gang of saboteurs and emerge heroes. Stan and Ollie are in rare form. (June) /AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY, THE— Universal : Deanna Durbin, daughter of a missionary to China, pretends she married Commodore Harry Davenport just before he went down with his torpedoed ship in order to get her eight war orphan companions in the U. S. Soon enough she finds herself in all sorts of difficulties and head over heels in love with Edmond O'Brien, grandson of the late Commodore. (April) APE MAN THE — Monogram: Another scarey one, with Bela Lugosi as a crackpot scientist who in his experiments turns himself into an ape and then proceeds to trap human beings all over the place. (May) /ASSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY— -M-G-M: An interesting new personality, Pierre Aumont proves himself a hit as the Free French soldier who impersonates a native (pro-Nazi) of a Brittany village in order to locate a Nazi sub base for the English. His betrothed, Susan Peters, is fooled by the impersonation, but he's exposed by the flirtatious Signe Hasso. It's an exciting story. (June) /BEHIND PRISON WALLS— P.R.C.: There's humor, satire and quite an impressive quality to this well-done little gem, with Alan Baxter as the overidealistic son whose testimony sends his industrialist father, Tully Marshall, to prison. Gertrude Michael is the secretary and Edwin Maxwell the meanie. The direction by Steve Sekely is outstanding. (May) BUCKSKIN FRONTIER— U. A.: This Western telling of the early fights for railway supremacy out West stars Richard Dix, who is fresh, believable and handsome. Lee Cobb is outstanding, Albert Dekker very good, and Jane Wyatt is a lovely heroine. The flow of wagon trains across the Western plains is beautifully photographed. (June) //CABIN IN THE SKY— M-G-M: Ethel Waters and Rochester, in company with an all Negro cast. bring to the screen a classic of Negro folklore. Lena Home is the temptress trying to lure Rochester from his wife, Miss Waters, and such important entertainers as Rex Ingram, Willie Best. Kenneth Spencer and Louis Armstrong highlight the story. (May) //CHETNIKS'.— 20th Century-Fox: A thrilling story right out of the headlines about Jugoslavian guerrillas who refused to be conquered by Hitler. Hiding in the hills, Mihailovitch, Philip Dorn, constantly besieges the Nazi-held town in which his wife and children live, until he recaptures it. (April) //CHINA — Paramount: Alan Ladd is the oil agent in China who refuses to take sides in the life and death struggle between the Japs and Chinese until he comes face to face with the Japs' atrocities. Loretta Young is a schoolteacher who, with her brood of Chinese children, is rescued by Ladd, and Bill Bendix is Ladd's truck driver. All their performances are excellent. (June) CHINA GIRL— 20th Century-Fox: George Montgomery, an unbelievably brash, reckless American newsreel cameraman in Mandalay, loses his job, gets involved with Japanese agents Lynn Bari and Victor McLaglen, and falls in love with Chinese Gene Tierney. The story is hopelessly incredible and Miss Tierney has little to do but appear Oriental. (April) SHADOW STAGE Pictures Reviewed in This Issue Page Above Suspicion 103 Aerial Gunner 102 Captive Wild Woman 103 Chatterbox . . 102 Coney Island 24 Cowboy From Manhattan 101 Crash Dive 102 Du Barry Was A Lady 24 Good Morning, Judge 102 I Escaped From The Gestapo 101 King Of The Cowboys 103 Lady Of Burlesque 99 Leather Burners, The 101 More The Merrier, The 24 Mr. Lucky 99 My Friend Flicka 1 00 Pilot No. 5 100 Presenting Lily Mars 99 Rear Gunner, The 102 Shantytown 100 They Came To Blow Up America 102 White Savage 101