Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

CAIRO — M-G-M: This isn't very good, but it does have its moments of fun with Bob Young as an American' correspondent in Cairo and Jeanette MacDonald as an American singer who's the dupe of Nazi sympathizers. The way the two chase each other around is a caution. Jeanette sings beautiful I v and Ethel Waters is superb as the maid. (Nov.) CALLING DR. GILLESPIE— M-G-M: Philip Dorn replaces Lew Ayres in the Dr. Kildare series and scores a solid hit as the Holland-born doctor who hopes to become a psychoanalyst and does when a homicidal maniac roams the hospital seeking revenge on Dr. Gillespie, played as usual by Lionel Barrymore. Phil Brown is the young maniac and Donna Reed his sweetheart. (Oct.) CANAL ZONE — Columbia: It's the same old story of the young upstart in aviation training who finally gets his come-uppance and turns out to be a man and a hero. John Hubbard is the believable smartie, Chester Morris the flying instructor, and Harriet Hilliard the lone female of the cast. (Nov.) CAREFUL, SOFT SHOULDERS— 20th CenturyFox: Everything happens to everybody and little of it makes sense. Lovely Virginia Bruce, a Washington socialite scatterbrain, gets involved with Nazi agents under the impression that they're our own Secret Service men. Timmv Ellison is the strongarmed boy friend and Sheila Ryan and Aubrey Mather stand out clearly. (Dec.) CITY OF SILENT MEN— P.R.C. : When a smalltown mayor turns over a local cannery to a group of ex-convicts as a rehabilitation experiment, the town folk grumble and eventually flare into rebellion when a murder is committed. Frank Alberttson, June Lang, Jan Wiley and Emmett Lynn head the cast, but the picture's strictly small-time. (Dec.) \/y DESPERATE JOURNEY — Warners: A thriller in this melodrama, telling of the adventures of a group of R.A.F. flyers whose bomber crashes in Germany. They escape the Germans and then comes their desperate attempt to evade German officer Raymond Massey and make their way back to England. Errol Flynn is the squadron leader and the flyers include Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale. (Nov.) DRUMS OF THE CONGO— Universal: It seems we need certain meteoric mineral for our defense industries, so Don Terry of the Army Intelligence is lispatched to the African jungle to get it, but he rinds that foreign agents are also after it. Ona Munson is the brave woman doctor, Peggy Moran a girl spy, but Stuart Erwin as the jungle guide steals the show. (Dec.) EYES IN THE NIGHT— M-G-M : Ann Harding comes back to the screen as a stepmother who must break up the romance of her daughter, Donna Reed, with John Emery. There's also a plot to steal millionaire Reginald Denny's invention. It's blind man Edward Arnold who, with the aid of his dog, discovers the plot and brings our enemies to justice. (Dec.) FLYING FORTRESS — Warners: You'll see Richard Greene in this English-made film, in which he plays an American playboy who joins the Ferry Command, falls in love with an American newspaperwoman and joins the R.A.F. The air-raid scenes in the American-made bomber are thrilling, but the English interpretations of Americans are most unconvincingly. (Dec.) y*/ FLYING TIGERS— Republic: A thrilling, heart-stirring film based on the adventures of the volunteer American flyers who fought and died for China's cause. John Wayne, the squadron leader; John Carroll, the braggadocio; Edmund MacDonald, Paul Kelly and Gordon Jones give us a page of American history that should make every American proud of his race. (Dec.) \SFOOTLlGHT SERENADE — 20th CenturyFox: Victor Mature is an egotistical prize fighter who goes on the stage, ousts star Cobina Wright Jr. from her role, substitutes his own choice, Betty Grable, and then can't understand why Betty should prefer John Payne to him. Betty does several dance routines, Jane Wyman plays her girl friend and James Gleason is the producer. (Oct.) FOREIGN AGENT — Monogram: Another spy-ring story, but this time the baddies wend their way after the usual secret invention in and out of studios and Los Angeles environs. John Shelton and Gale Storm are the romantic leads and Ivan Lebedeff and George Travell stir things up a bit. There's plenty of action. (Dec.) • FOREST RANGERS— Paramount: Fred MacMurray is the handsome ranger who meets and marries Paulette Goddard, to the jealous chagrin of Susan Hayward, who tries to get him away. More important than the fine cast, which also includes Albert Dekker, Eugene Pallette and Lynne Overman, is the succession of tremendous fire scenes, magnificently photographed in Technicolor. (Dec.) V\/ FOR ME AND MY GAL— M-G-M: A musical knockout, with George Murphy losing his vaudeville partner, Judy Garland, to Gene Kelly. 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