The Canadian Motion Picture Exhibitor (Sep 15, 1941)

The Exhibitor September 15th, 1941 COLUMBIA HERE COMES MR. JORDAN The amazing Robert Montgomery is still alternating between slick salon and tough ruffian roles. And he’s still thoroughly at home in either. This time he plays an easy-going prizefighter in a shining celluloid lark about reincarnation. Montgomery, flying to a fight, crashes. Edward Everett Horton, field man for the otherworld soul-collecting agency supervised by Claude Rains, in his eagerness to run up a big quota fast, snags Montgomery’s soul before his physical frame expires. This is strictly a foul. They try to put the Bob of the shadows back into the Bob of substance but find that Jimmy Gleason, his manager, has had the casing cremated. Montgomery, Rains and Horton go on a body-shopping tour but the picky Bob can’t be satisfied. During the junket Bob, invisible to jall but his otherworld buddies, helps justice, falls in love with Evelyn Keyes and wins a championship. How the mortal Miss Keyes and the spiritual Montgomery join their love is just one of the well-worked out answers. This is probably the most entertaining fantasy in years. The story abounds in surprising turns and will keep the audience just far enough behind it all the way. What would ordinarily be an involved story is easily followed under the clean-cut direction of Alexander C. Hall. Also, to the credit of the writers, invisible man tricks of a scenic nature are not substituted for plot twists. Shine up the ticket machine, fellow. There’s a hard time ahead for it. : TWO LATINS FROM MANHATTAN Here’s a pert little musical that will lighten any bill. The much-plugged Jinx Falkenberg and capable Joan Woodbury play a couple of unwanted vocalists who usurp the contract of a Cuban team and make a hit. Joan Davis leads the laughs and some new fellow—we missed his name—appears infrequently to woo Woodbury. 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 Brancnes at: HALIFAX TORONTO WINNIPEG REGINA CALGARY VANCOUVER A NATIONAL THEATRE SERVICE WARNERS INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON SUN This plane picture is without the technicolor and polish of the big-shot stuff but it makes that up in excitement and realistic background scenes. The plot is the veteran of a hundred such. But the neighborhood patrons, won’t mind this and it should do good district business. — Ronald Reagian is a lightheaded gadabout via air who ferries a bomber to avoid being sued by disappointed dames. Though James Stephenson, recently deceased, is billed big he plays in support. As a British officer and pal of Reagan, Stephenson hasn’t much to do but portray the quiet, determined English chanacter. But he gives the whole thing class. Reagan joins the squadron and distinguishes himself after acting the heel. Olympe Bradna and Bill Lundigan serve well. Cliff Edwards seems forgotten in the excitement but pops up every so often to inject laughs. FOX VALLEY SERENADE A while back the trade was crying .to.-get Sonja Henie off skates to put her back on her feet., Miss Henie’s skating sequences were cut down but it didn’t help::much. Now, in this picture, she’s back on blades in a big way--and the result will be many a happy theatre hour for patron and.-exhibitor. “Sun Valley..Serenade” is her best effort. to date and the country is responding. Henie’s skating is sharper than ever, the production numbers around her..exceed any previous efforts. and the general show provides enough of varied entertainment to suit almost every taste. Glenn Miller and his orchestra play the crackerjack compositions of Mack Gordon and Harry Warren and John Payne, the romantic lead, sings them. Milton Berle comes into his comedic own in this and Joan Davis, despite the damper on her hoydenish hub-bub, scores strongly. Lynn Bari sings and acts well and the Nicholas Brothers turn in a stint of unusual dancing. Miss Henie is a refugee ‘consigned to orchestra leader John . Payne, who thought he was helping a child but, though dissatis fied, is compelled to carry on. In Sun Valley love sets in. This one is money in the bank. , WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT SIX GUN GOLD INTERNATIONAL. LADY A pleasant Terrytoon in which insects and animals indulge in a nocturnal concert. Nicely grotesque. Not highly humorous or slapsticky. PARAMOUNT NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH A well-done. version of the old thriller. It starts slowly but picks up pace, thrills and chills as it moves toward the solution. Ellen Drew is the girl accused of killing her boss and Robert Preston, nephew and heir, falls in love with her. The money has been swiped so both settle her innocence and the question of who got the plunder. They dug up Nils Asther for this one and the old-timer shapes up well. It will do on anybody’s double bill. RKO A No. 1 double-bill western that will be big stuff for the lollipop custom. Tim Holt finds Leroy Mason posing as his brother, a marshall. The problem is to get a shipment of gold to the nearest bank. He does it with the aid of comedian Lee “Luasses” White and Ray Whitley, who sings two songs well. They capture the bad guys, too. UNITED ARTISTS i ‘ A well-mounted super-snooper saga popularily cast and occasionally thrilling. Ilona Massey is the German spy, Gene Lockhart helps her, George Brent of the FBI and Basil Rathbone of Scotland Yard compete to pinch her. first. It’s a tie that way but Brent wins her help and love. It has secret codes and music,