Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1941)

WHAT THE NEWSPAPER CRITICS SAY Highlights from Reviews of New Pictures By Foremost Critics Their BLITZ Will Give You "FITS"! SUN VALLEY SERENADE (20th Century-Fox) "...Nice melody, excellent skiing and skating scenes and a general pleasant air about the whole thing to warrant labeling it knockout entertainment."— BOEHNEL, N. Y. WORLDTELEGRAM. ". . .For a musical comedy with variety. . .hard to top. . .Better than average tunes. . .Comedy is supplied by Milton Berle in moderate but satisfactory doses."— WINSTEN, N. Y. POST. "...Merry little show. . .Thrilling and exquisite skate sequences." — FINN, PHILA. RECORD. WEST POINT WIDOW (Paramount) "...Pretty silly and commonplace and lacking almost entirs'y in any entertainment value. . .Stuff and nonsense. . .and that's being pretty nice about it."— BOEHNEL, N. Y. V/ORLDTELEGRAM. "...Distinctly hkeable in spots, hard to believe in others. . .Several moderately entertaining sequences."— WINSTEN, N. Y. POST. "...Catalogue of typical screen situations. . .Flimsy and tepid." — BARNES, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. FATHER TAKES A WIFE (RKO-Radio) "...Anyway, the first 15 minutes are full of pleasant chuckles." — BOEHNEL, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM. "...Not only a personal triumph for Miss Swanson and Adolphe Menjou; it is one of the smartest comedies of the year ... Satirizes with a deft, light touch. . .Consistently brilliant and crackling dialogue."— DANA, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. "...It wouldn't be so bad if it contained witty lines to cover the aged skeleton of a plot. But there is no relief on that score, only more of the same."— WINSTEN, N. Y. POST. ".. .Amusing. . .Puts you in a good mood even though you realize that many of the situations are somewhat labored." — T. M. P., N. Y. TIMES. WHEN LADIES MEET (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ". . .Hard to see how the motion picture can fail to get a huge response from feminine filmgoers. At the same time, I think it is a rather ponderous and wordy translation. . .Lacks zest." — BARNES, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. ". . .Sounds so stagey that it's hard to believe that it ever was really good. . .Entertainment on the doubtful side."— WINSTEN, N. Y. POST. "...Doesn't ring true because its people somehow seem chillingly empty and unreal and because the lines are artificial and labored ...Slow and hfeless."— BOEHNEL, N. Y. WORLDTELEGRAM. ". . .Hangs on grimly and desperately for a couple of fairly amusing reels and then expires pitifully and painfully in a smother of pompous words."— CROWTHER, N. Y. TIMES. CITIZEN KANE (RKO-Radio) "...Suppression of this film would have been a crime... The most surprising and cinematically exciting .Totion pictu-e to be seen here in many a moon... You should-i't miss this film. It is cynical, ironic, sometimes oppressive and as reali-tic as a salp." — CROWTHER, N. Y. TIMES. "...Revolutionary screen achievement. . .As sta kly, compelling entertainment, it can be compared only wi*h 'The Informer'. . .Fresh and dynamic... As significant as it is experimental and entertaining...A truly great motion picture."— BARNES, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. "...Cinema masterpiece ... So full of drama, pathos, humor, drive, variety and courage and originality in its treatment that it is staggering and belongs at once among the great screen achievements."—BOEHNEL, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM. Produced by SAM KATZM&N Directed by Wallace Foi Story by Brendan Wood and Don Donmullahy Screenplay by Sam Robins "Action moves along with pace and excitement"— 1^4J?/f7y "Considerable boxoffice value has been built into it" — HOLLYWOOD REPORTER • "Fast dialogue and clever wisecracks make for innumerable laughs"— LA. TIMES THEY'VE GONE PLANE CRAZY! MONOGRAM PICTURE Yesterday they were sassing cops. Today ...they're Bowery birdmen . . . waging gang-wor on enemy agents I LIO GORCEY BOSSY JORDAN Produced by SAM KATZMAN Difected by WILLIAM WEST Story Screenplay by AL MARim "Best of this series for acHon"— 5//01VMf/V'5 '"East Side Kids never had a more hilarious vehicle"— £. A. TIMES "Good direction, nice performances, amusing comedy"— HOLLYWOOD REPORTER SEPTEMBER 20, 1941 21