Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1941)

WHAT THE NEWSPAPER CRITICS SAY Highlights from Reviews of New Pictures By Foremost Critics YOU BELONG TO ME Columbia "...Flat, stale and tedious ... Call it overconfidence, a bad dream or dissension, and let's hope 'You Belong to Me' doesn't happen again." — WINSTEN. N. Y. POST. "...Only good performances ... keep it from being as visibly silly as we think it is ... Apple-snow, palatable but not nutritious."— MURDOCK, PHILA. LEDGER. "...Though it runs amok, it's from exuberance rather than a deliberate stretch-out. Which keeps it consistently likeable and now and then shoves it into hilarity." — AGER, P. M. ". . .Hooey. . .Seldom has a story been less original, people more stupid, dialogue more wretched and direction more unimagi native."— BOEHNEL, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM. "...Lightweight but pleasant ... Fortunate in having a smart script as foundation — bright and easy dialogue and cute situations ... A bit of well-turned fun."— CROWTHER, N. Y. TIMES. "...Rather ponderous variation of the marital squabble theme ... Lightweight and second-rate."— BARNES. N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. RISE AND SHINE 20th Century-Fox "...Daffy and Delightful ... Entertaining enough to make its way in any period of athletic activity. . .Very good fun."— BARNES, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. " . . . Trainload of laughs . . . Fast, helterskelter, hilariously f unny ... Designed for fun and fun alone, and it achieves its purpose with rousing success." — BOEHNEL, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM. ". . .Slightly on the strong and mildewed side, but all right if you can stand it. . .Not a story worthy of the assembled or any talents."— WINSTEN, N. Y. POST. "...Packs some brick entertainment in a madly farcial vein ... Little incidents are lively and chucklesome ... Won't win any prizes, but it manages to chalk up a score."— CROWTHER. N. Y. TIMES. SMILIN THROUGH Metro-Goldwyn-Moyer "...Sure-fire plot of the sentimental type. . .Still manages to pump up a sob or two among sympathetic souls." — WINSTEN. N. Y. POST. "...A little long and tear-laden, and the story dated; but its appeal is still obvious ... Still a pleasant, nostalgic idyll."— A. B., PHILA. RECORD. ". . .Mush laid on with a trowel. . . Pretty difficult to breathe life into this 2 I -year-old play ... Entirely porous knit and its appeal depends on the moment." —BOEHNEL, N.Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM. "...As dated as it is dull ... Maudlin romance which never should have been remade. . .Has box-office come-ons, but it is a sorry entertainment." — BARNES, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. MARRY THE BOSS' DAUGHTER 20th Century-Fox "...Dull, preposterous, unimaginative offering."— BOEHNEL. N. Y. WORLDTELEGRAM. ". . .If any one is studiously looking for the very worst picture of the year, let us suggest that he consider 'Marry the Boss' Daughter' ... Tedious and stupid." —CROWTHER. N. Y. TIMES. "...Feeble fable, with overtones of hearty and somewhat pointless humor ...Efficiently contrived piece of romantic claptrap."— WINSTE^J. M. Y. POST. "...Feeble hodge-podge of conventional situations. . .Undoubtedly designed for the fill-in spot on double-feature programs. Even as such, it is singularly uninspired and tedious." — BARNES. N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. KEEP 'EM FLYING Universal ". . .Generally hilarious. . .Story is definitely tired. The antics of the boys are not always up to scratch. . .Timely and often amusing, but it is a minor Abbott-Costello romp."— BARNES. N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. ". . .Outrageously funny. . .Fast, furious fun. . .Old gags treated in a fresh and imaginative manner and the new full of fine comic invention." — BOEHNEL, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM. ". . .Their most handsome and hilarious to date. . .Gag situations that will have you in spasms. . .Smooth framework on which are slung laugh lines and screaming-out-loud situations." — REEL, CHICAGO HERALD-AMERICAN. "...There are faughs, plenty of them, but the feeling persists that they are derived from warmed-over gags. . . Their antics could endure for years if better spaced out and more ingenuity given their routines." — iMURDOCK. PHILA. LEDGER. "...Not quite as spontaneous in its, humor as were previous A. and C. starring comedies." — FINN. PHILA. RECORD. THE THRILL SHOW OF THE YEAR! MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN THE tHRTGR CnSE JAMES ELLISON as the sleuthing Assistant District Attorney and VIRGINIA GILMORE as his partner in crime-busting and love. JAMES ELLISON • VIRGINIA GILMORE ' FRANKLIN PANGBORN • PAUL HARVEY • LYNNE CARVER • SPENCER CHARTERS • Bernard Vorhaos — Director k^onsmoi .cr..n pio, b» sidn.y shHdor. onrf s.n Robr.i. . BosetJ oti the Philljps H. lofd Rodjo Progfom, "MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY" R E P U BLiC PICTURE DECEMBER 15, 1941 27