The Canadian Motion Picture Exhibitor (Nov 15, 1941)

Page 4 The Exhibitor — November 15th, 1941 UNITED ARTISTS © SUNDOWN This story of spy activities in deep Africa is extremely interesting all the way. It has the mystery of savage superstitions and the excitement of mountain battles between natives and British soldiers. Gene Tierney, as a supposed Arab girl, gives it smoldering glamor. Brunt of acting is carried by Bruce Cabot, administrator of an East African outpost, whose chief problem is smuggled guns to hostile natives. Carl Esmond is the Nazi spy who, with Marc Lawrence, a native leader, make things rough for a while. George Sanders and Reginald Gardner are excellent as Cabot’s fellow-officers. Harry Carey has a minor role as an old trader and Joseph Calleia, as a captured Italian officer with a flair for cooking, does a fine bit of acting and provides just the right amount of comedy. A colored actor, Emmett Smith, does a good bit as a heroic trooper. The picture ends with a heart-stirring plea by Sir Cedric Hardwicke for faith in victory. He plays a bishop, the bereaved father of Sanders. A strong show for the adventure trade. PARAMOUNT NEW YORK TOWN View of the big town from the human side. Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin and Akim Tamiroff are a tough luck trio trying to break the jinx by marrying off Martin to a millionaire—in this. case Robert Preston. Of course, MacMurray wants her back FOX CHARLEY’S AUNT Jack Benny, the Jello man, puts some oil into the old creaker and it comes out better than ever, folks, better than ever. Richard Haydn and Charles Ellison press him into service as a chaperon so that they can spend some time with their sweethearts. Benny, in female togs, becomes victim to the amatory intentions of Edmund Gwen and Laird Cregar. It’s hop, slap and jump all the way and a sure roar-getter. Keeping it bouncing along are Kay Francis, Reginald Owen, Anne Baxter, Arleen Whelan and Ernest Cossart. Archie Mayo directed. EMPIRE-UNIVERSAL SAILORS ON LEAVE A nautical comedy loaded with consistent capers that yield a steady stream of laughter. William Lundigan is one of Uncle Sam’s sailors who’s being forced into marriage to make good a story his pals used to help borrow money from their shipmates. He’s supposed to inherit the dough if he’s married by a certain day. The ship turns cupid and after considerable bobbing and weaving Lundigan marries Shirley Ross. There’s music also. Sailing along with Lundigan and Ross are Cliff Nazarro, Chick Chandler, Ruth Donnelly, Mae Clarke and Tom Kennedy. The picture will carry many situations by itself and is a strong topper for any duo. —and gets her. Miss Martin sings once. It’s light, mostly, but} APPOINTMENT FOR LOVE the names, helped by Lynne Overman, Eric Blore and Fuzzy Knight, have drawing power. 1930 1941 THE RADIO in eleven years? No comparison! THE AUTOMOBILE—enormous betterment. THE. TELEPHONE—totally different and better. THE TRAIN—air conditioned, streamlined, smooth. ANY ITEM “you care to mention—modem, efficient, better during the passing of the years. Your Sound System — there's the rub. Obsolete as the dodo-bird—only you can fully understand it. Why not wise up? Give the audience a break and the box office a job to do. Install Modern Theatre Sound ! It’s not really expensive, and it quickly pays for itself. Full information for the asking. COLEMAN ELECTRIC COMPANY 258 VICTORIA ST. TORONTO, ONT. A sparkling film about a playwright married to a physician of the opposite sex and their exasperating inability to get together. Charles Boyer is the drama scribbler who loves Margaret Sullavan. She insists on carrying on their marital connections by remote control. The doctor’s appointments provide the scribe’s disappointments. Thus it goes all the way. But pleasantly enough. On hand are Eugene Pallette, Rita Johnson, Ruth Terry, Reginald Denny, J. M. Kerrigan and Gus Schilling. COLUMBIA YOU BELONG TO ME The lady sawbones is in again. This time she’s Barbara Stanwyck, married after a quick courtship to a millionaire loafer with a childish jealousy, Henry Fonda. Not the lady’s appointments but her handsome male patients irk Fonda into fits of irresponsibility. He settles down by buying a hospital to share with his wife. It’s darned good fun nearly all the way—and uproarious in spots. Helping to keep it that way are Ruth Donnelly as Stanwyck’s nurse, Edgar Buchanan as Fonda’s philosophical gardener, and Roger Clark as a rival. WARNERS TARGET FOR TONIGHT An hour-long English thriller providing a celluloid schedule of an RAF jaunt over Germany. The boys in the Blenheims, etc., take the watchers along as they fly away to a bombing operation. No fuss and feathers, no fine speeches; just the simple, deadly and exciting stuff of war. Played throughout by unbilled boys in air force blue. Enthralling. RKO SUSPICION A classy piece of work about a fortune hunter and his simple wife. Cary Grant marries Joan Fontaine for her money and gets worse as things go along. The wife’s anguish grows as her suspicions develop that the husband is capable of anything. It ends with reasonable pleasantness. Alfred Hitchcock provided his usual thorough direction. Other players are Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty and Heather Angel. Good for the distaff clientelle.