Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1938)

12 9>tdependent EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN What the Newspaper Critics Say BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE (Paramount) ". . . It's not a bad comedy ... a few arid and barren stretches that even Lubitsch could not make yield light comedy . . ." Nugent. N. Y. TIMES ". . . Delightfully amusing . . . Very little of the Lubitsch touches ... An engaging comedy . . ." Barnes, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE "... A neat piece of picture making in the things that count, namely laughs . . One of the merriest comedies of the month." Winsten. N. Y. POST ". . . Funny, cheerfully witty and footloose entertainment . . . Immediately goes on your list of films which must be seen . . . Cast is superb . . ." Boehnel. N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM ". . . Much of it is funny, but it does go on and on ... An adult production and single-mindedly on s-e-x . . ." H. T. M., PHILA. LEDGER THE DIVORCE OF LADY X (United Artists) ". . . Has a great deal of refreshing charm ... A welcome relief after the screwball comedy cycle . . . Strikingly different . . ." Barnes. N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE ". . . Swell fun, an urbane, witty, superbly played and directed entertainment . . . Alert, continuously amusing, in short, it is jolly make-believe . . ." Boehnel, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM ", . . Not so fast nor so clever as it might have been . . . Miss Oberon miscast. It's like asking Garbo to do a Carole Lombard act . . . Sorely lacks pace ..." H. T. M„ PHILA. EVENING LEDGER ". . . Nimble-witted ... Its lines are bright ... A gay and urbane comedy jauntily played." Nugent, N. Y. TIMES TIP-OFF GIRLS (Paramount) ". . . Action, cold-blooded killers, suspense, climax . . . This outdoes itself . . . An unusually good cast ... It really grips you . . ." Winsten, N. Y. POST ". . . Cops-and-robbers melodrama — nothing classy, just bang, bang, bang! ... A good B-plus action picture . . ." B. C. N. Y. TIMES ". . . Highly dramatic exciting story . . . Fast and furious with satisfactory acting." Boehnel, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM ". . . Diverting and exciting . . . Thrilling pulp movie." R. W. D., NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE OVER THE WALL (Warner Bros.) ". . . The best it can give you is a good laugh, which was not intended . . . The silliest prison ever seen in the movies . . ." Winsten, N. Y. POST ". . . The lightest stretch we ever did in a Warner Brothers prison picture . . . No machine guns, no sirens, not even a wall . . ." B. R. C, N. Y. TIMES ". . . Directing is as slow paced as the narrative . . . Too stereotyped to make it an entertaining melodrama . . ." Barnes, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE "... A fast-moving, action-packed meller . . . Generally entertaining . . ." Finn, PHILA. RECORD THE RAT (Imperator) ". . . Never once rises above being mediocre melodrama . . . Plenty of synthetic excitement to provide some sort of reason for its having been filmed . . ." Thirer, N. Y. POST ". . . So well acted and directed that it succeeds in surmounting the handicap of its long-winded story and emerges as first-rate en tertainment . . . Succeeds in holding one's interest from beginning to end . . ." Boehnel, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM "... A pitifully bedraggled romantic melodrama which presumably has its origin in the Paris underworld . . . There are moments when the whole thing might be taken as a deliberate spoof . . ." B. R. C N. Y. TIMES THE CRIME OF DR. HALLET (Universal) "... A picture of more than passing interest . . . Josephine Hutchinson's performance is engaging . . ." Thirer, N. Y. POST "... A serious, well directed drama . . . Enough excitement to give fair amount of entertainment . . ." R. W. D.. NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE "... A great deal of atmosphere . . . Never actually exciting . . . Class B Direction . . ." B. R. C NEW YORK TIMES ARSENE LUPIN RETURNS (M-G-M) "... A top-drawer cast gives a drawing-room flavor to what otherwise would be a routine story . . . Perfect cast." H. T. M.. PHILA. EVENING LEDGER ". . . It's mystifying, humorous, a little confusing in spots, and set against dressy Metro backgrounds . . ." Thirer, N. Y. POST "... A story that is more confusing than mystifying . . . Suspense isn't nearly as terrific as it should be to make the film a class A melodrama . . . Carmody, WASH. EVENING STAR HAWAII CALLS (RKO-Radio) ". . . The best of the Breen pictures . . . Plenty of laughs not to mention a tear or two . . . Sparks is funnier than he's been for years . . ." Reel, CHICAGO AMERICAN ". . . An amusing adventure . . . Laughs . . ." Finn, PHILA. RECORD ". . . The youthful warbler is well adapted to the film . . . Bobby sings with more precision than John McCormick . . . The plot won't bother you much . . ." G. G.. PHILA. LEDGER KING OF THE NEWSBOYS (Republic) ". . . Artless, the story is not likely to shock the conservative movie mind with its newness . . . Class B . . ." B. R. C NEW YORK TIMES ". . . Only fair-to-middling entertainment . . . Cast good, handicapped by a feeble and fumbling script and some loose direction." Boehnel, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM ". . . The acting is worthy of the story, and vice verse . . . Fastmoving, sensational and cut to the reality specifications of a pulpmagazine story . . . Aimed at the commercial field . . ." Winsten, N. Y. POST "... A touch of screw-ball comedy, a tinge of melodrama and an overdose of romance ... It must stand as entertainment, nothing else . . ." P.. W. D., NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE THE PORT OF IV18SSBNG GIRLS (Monogram) ". . . Third rate underworld fodder . . . Only a few have some idea of what acting is all about — the others are pretty terrible . . ." Boehnel, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM "... A nickelodeon thriller . . . Highly improbable . . ." B. C NEW YORK TIMES ". . . As cut-and-dried thriller stuff with dashes of romance and heart-throb it fits the pattern . . . Fisticuffs and gunplay and a happy ending." Winsten. N. Y. POST