The Canadian Motion Picture Exhibitor (Aug 15, 1941)

Page 4 The Exhibitor August 15th, 1941 REGAL THEY MET IN BOMBAY Love among the ice snatchers—jewel thieves to you. Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell talk the whole thing in a tonguein-cheeky way. Bombay, shmombay—it could have happened in Oshkosh. If it could have happened at all. Which it couldn't. But who cares? The public won’t. It’s got Gable and Russell and that’s enough for most cinema shoppers. Story starts off strictly old hat, with both being jewel thieves kidding each other while waiting for a chance sat a big hunk of ice. They get it, love sets in and they hook up. From then on the story gains in twists, scope, action, excitement—and unbelievability. Believe it or leave it, they’re both redeemed when Gable, posing as an officer, wins the Victoria Cross in a battle between the British and Japs. Helping things along are Jessie Ralph, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen, Luis Alberni, and Eduardo Cianelli. FOX DANCE HALL A saga of the shin-dens, tough in tone. dialogue, Cesare Romero stalking Carol Landis and winning her through love—which was not his original intention. Also has J. Edward Bromberg and William Henry. Strictly for grownups— and probably for fewer than the company hoped to attract with the picture. UNIVERSAL SAN ANTONIO ROSE A neat jazz bandy, one of a series of compact musical comedies straggling out of that studio of late. A capital B. Story about a jazz band and a sister team that take over a discarded night club after its boss was muscled out of business. But they don’t waste much time on the plot. Full of forthright jazz, played WARNERS MANPOWER This is a punch-packed picture with a distinctly different, if not exactly new, background. Three lively stars, enacting a strong story, make it a very worthwhile presentation. Warners seem to be meeting the war-sharpened tastes of fans for more believable stuff by blending the realism of industrial everyday backgrounds with fictional plots. The most recent effort along that line was “They Drive By Night.” The same writers, Jerry Wald and Leo McCauley, turned out that one and this. Ed. G. Robinson and George Raft, part of a power crew of trouble-shooters working against storm and truant high voltage, provide the thrills. Marlene Dietrich, jailbroad and sucker bait, comes between the boys. The climax is somewhat surprising. Warners prize cutups, Frank McHugh and Alan Hale, give the whole job a once-over-lightly treatment, their jinks causing sumptious laughter. Admirably acted all-round and given licketyclip direction by Raoul Walsh. It has music, hep| BAD MEN OF MISSOURI A biographical bullet ballet of the cow country, with Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris, Arthur Kennedy, Victor Jory, Alan Baxter and Walter Catlett. The Younger Brothers ride off the straight-and-narrow on the stolen railroad right-ofway routine. One of these days the railroads are going to get mad at the constant Hollywood implications of historic perfidy in securing track space. The boys whoop it up all the way. Good stuff for the horse opera custom. What’s the idea of Hollywood holding out on a wonderful defense weapon? In all these pictures the heel and hero alike carry six-shooters that fire hundreds of cartridges. COLUMBIA and sung. Lon Chaney, Jr., and Shemp Howard are a couple of ELLERY QUEEN AND THE PERFECT CRIME capering hoodlums who provide the comedy. With Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Eve Arden, Richard Lane, Luis Alberni and the Merry Macs. ; R.C.A. “High Fidelity” Sound Systems Northern Electric ‘Mirrophonic” Sound Systems Motiograph Projectors Century Projectors Ashcraft Arc Lamp Equipment {mperial “Stedypower” Generators Forest Rectifiers R.C.A. Hurley Screens Celotex Acoustical Materials Also Other Miscellaneous Booth Supplies. DOMINION SOUND EQUIPMENTS LIMITED Head Office: 1620 Notre Dame Street West, Montreal Brancues at: HALIFAX TORONTO WINNIPEG REGINA CALGARY VANCOUVER A NATIONAL THEATRE SERVICE MY Hovers near the standard for this sort of thing. A _ wellcast uneasy-going murder mystery. There have been faster products in this group. Douglas Dumbrille is killed and son John Beal is first accused, then H. B. Warner. Ralph Bellamy shakes the boys loose from the phoney rap. In the lineup are Charley Grapewin, Spring Byington, Margaret Lindsey and Sydney Blackmer. R. K. O. LIFE WITH CAROLINE That nice-voiced Ronald Colman in a picture that’s a sure lure for the feminine folk. He’s a publisher whose wife, a newcomer named Anna Lee, gets to gadding about when he neglects her. Then he goes about winning her back and that process yields charm, spice, grace and fun. Present: Charles Winninger, Reginald Gardner and Gilbert Roland. INFORMATION PLEASE The quiz wizards, Oscar Levant, Franklin P. Adams, and John Kieran in another entertaining query quorum. Boris Karloff, utility man this trip, is the sweetest fellow you ever met. Levant famed for his ad libidos on the air, come quick and clean with his quips here. Good stuff. EARLY TO BED Mr. Disney’s D. Duck in «a siesta fiesta—a sleepy-time serenade full of frantic antics. A folding bed is the excuse for that turbulent temper this time. He never does marshal the mattress. The same good standard. HERE IS A MAN (The Devil and Dan’! Webster) : This is an elaboration of the Stephen Vincent Benet short story in the Saturday Evening Post. It took some tall spinning to make it come out feature-length and the story just couldn’t stand all that going-over. It’s slow but it’s mighty watchable just the same. Especially the superb work of Walter Huston as a gay and ironical Devil. The whole is deep-down homespun New England folk-lore. Ed Arnold is the stoutish, silver-tongued Dan’l Webster who stands the Devil off on collection day for the soul of James Craig, for which he (the Devil) had bartered seven years of good luck. Lending their support are Anne Shirley, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, Gene Lockhart, John Qualen and boy actor Lindy Wade.