Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1945)

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What The Newspaper Critics Say HIGHLIGHTS FROM REVIEWS OF NEW PICTURES BY FOREMOST CRITICS KEYS OF THE KINGDOM1 FINE, STIRRING BUT LONG, IS VERDICT (20TH CENTURY-FOX) "...Sweet and charming, and again poignant and stirring screen drama — a personal triumph, indeed, for Gregory Peck .. .Lengthy, highly dramatic, entrancingly photographed production which certainly bears seeing. . .Stahl has captured a delicate spiritual quality, and at the same time managed to give the action sequences a biting tang." THIRER, N. Y. POST. "...A man of God receives dubious tribute .. .The Gregory Peck portrayal of a missionary gives triumphant accents to this screen translation of A. J. Cronin's novel. The translation itself is more episodic and contrived than dramatically convincing. . .Comparatively unconventional and is always sincere, but it is a bit fragmentary for comfort." BARNES, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. "...Fine and faithful but far too painstaking attempt to bring intact to the screen A. J. Cronin's best-selling novel... As a result the film now runs an unwieldly 2 hours, 18 minutes length arrived at after ruthless editing. . .Because of this cutting, the film now contains numerous loose ends and incomplete portions which may prove extraneous and bewildering to those who have not read the book ...Drags rather pointlessly for its first half hour then for the rest of the time becomes an absorbing, well-humored and gratifying experience that I, for one, regretted to see end." McMANUS, PM. "...Novel given devoted treatment but it had its greatest good fortune in being played by Gregory Peck. . .Fledgling movie actor tossing in one of the soundest and most intelligently presented performances of a year that has abounded in those merits. . .Picture of this quality is the right conclusion to a year whose movie achievements have been so much greater than most." COOK, N. Y. WORLD TELEGRAM. "...Inspiring and heart-warming ...Peck's sensitive portrayal is one of this year's outstanding character portraits to reach the screen. . .Told with humor as well as a touch of pathos under John Stahl's sympathetic direction. While it is primarily the story of a clergyman it is also a human document that will appeal to all sorts of people." CAMERON, N. Y. NEWS. "...Long and mellow film is but a surface shadow of the substance that was so finely wrought... In a two-hour-and-seventeen-minute picture, one might reasonably expect a great deal more insight into character and its conflicts than is offered here... Much of the dialogue that is cautiously arranged ... Is tedious, since it lacks real depth or point." CROWTHER, N. Y. TIMES. 'EXPERIMENT PERILOUS1 LAMARR-LUKAS-BRENT MELLER GETS GOOD NOTICES (RKO) "...Grapples with one of the screen's tougher hazards— intelligent, subtle psychological drama — and comes off very well... Effective set of shudders even if it does run a little slow at times. . .Jacques Tourneur, the director, specializing in violent horror stories makes it clear that he can put much more than mere jitters into his melodrama." COOK, N. Y. WORLD TELEGRAM. "...Psychological thriller of no mean shivery proportions. . .Dark domestic intrigue to keep the audience on tenderhooks. . .Belongs in the front rank of the year's mystery thrillers." GUERNSEY, n. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. "...Easily one of the better psychological melodramas. . .Unfortunate that the producers of this film elected to explore the warped mind of Nick Bederaux more in narrative than cinematic terms, for it just isn't good movie-making when the microphone proves to be more important than the camera. . .Skillful performance of Paul Lukas which holds 'Experiment Perilous' together until the violent and exasperatingly routine climax. . .Well calculated to hold your attention, despite its excessive talkativeness." T.M.P., N. Y. TIMES. "...Absorbing story... Only the idea of this new picture can be likened to 'Gaslight'. . .Doesn't pack quite the wallop that the Boyer-Bergman melodrama did. But it is equally as interesting and just as well produced and acted. It's doubtful that it will be as popular." HALE, N. Y. NEWS. ". . .You can't help finding 'Experiment Perilous' greatly remindful of 'Gaslight'. . .Theme is provocative: performances compelling." THIRER, N. Y. POST. 'MR. EMMANUEL1 BRITISH FILM HAS MIXED RECEPTION (UNITED ARTISTS) "...British-made simple and stirring little film is the sharpest damnation of Nazi 'kultur' that the screen is likely to show for some time. . .Tension increases in intensity until it becomes a truly terrifying spell. . .Exceptional dramatic strength . . .Felix Aylmer gives a performance which might be unqualifiedly recommended as one of the best we have ever seen. . .We confidently predict that this picture is one of the best that we will see this year." CROWTHER, N. Y. TIMES. ". . .Angry drama from England, denouncing the vicious brutality of the Nazi. . .Laid on a little more heavily than in American films with the same themeperhaps because of the vigor of the playing. . .Proceeds at the leisurely pace of English movies, turned to shrewd advantage in this case by giving the story an air of a carefully documented narrative. . .Dismaying, paralyzing impact on the emotion." COOK, N. Y WORLD TELEGRAM. "...In a leisurely, let's-suppose vein seeking to stimulate thought and discussion about the issues olj the war through the medium of the entertainment film... Mr. Emmanuel is magnificently portrayed by Felix Aylmer and there art some scenes in the film which leave deep and lasting impressions." McMANUS, PM. "...Latest British melodrama is a slow tale. . .Lacking in the curt, straightforward style of presentation which has won American admiration for the British thriller farr ...Its terror is slow and doddering like its central figure, rather than swift and dramatic .. .Has some excellent performances anc is based on an interesting notion: but as stated in 'Mr. Emmanuel,' it is just a little too much of a truism." GUERNSEY, JR., N. Y HERALD TRIBUNE. "...Warm and stirring story .. .Abounds with endearing intimate sequences. Although it tells a quite1 believable tale — one which touches the heart-strings, rouses the ire of good people, and again calls forth teary-eyed laughter — 'Mr, Emmanuel' is essentially a screen study of a rather remarkable character." THIRER, N. Y. POST. 'LAKE PLACID SERENADE' FOR SKATING ADDICTS (REPUBLIC) "...Miss Ralston's frozen figuring is graceful enough, though conservative as cinema gliding goes. . .Nothing new anc different. . .Same old ice routine with other faces in the parts. Undistinguished from similar pictures as it is, 'Lake Placid Serenade is for the skate-crazy fans only." GUERNSEY, JR., N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. ".. .Glittering ice show as pretty as a Christ mas card and just about as familiar. . .Fortunately, Miss Ralston and company stay on the ice for a majority of the picture's eighty five minutes. . .Unfortunately, it is when the skaters leave the ice that they and the film come a cropper .. .Painfully large quota o unfunny gags." A.W., N. Y. TIMES. "...$1,500,000 silver-skates extravaganza which needn't have cost nearly that much...Ic ballets and routines abbreviated, montaged and sometimes scarcely glimpsed because of the over-long and obviously less expensiv romantic involvements." McMANUS, PM. "...Customary for movies to treat skating fans as moderately dopey people wh like silly little trivia in the stories around which skating pictures are built, 'Lake Placid Serenade' came to the Republic this mornin to hold up the tradition. . .Skating scenes are as elaborate and lively as you could ask. . .Strictly for the skating addicts and they ma as well make up their minds in advance that the skating scenes are all the entertainment they are going to get." COOK, N. 'Si WORLD TELEGRAM. '3 IS A FAMILY' SLAPSTICK COMEDY TAKES A PANNING (UNITED ARTISTS) "...Series of howls, not from the audience but from a procession of infants. . .Plot just labors on and on. wit one ingenue, after another popping in the door in maternity costume and one gag-man after another exhausting his talents to mak I a circus of infanticipation." McMANUS, PM. "...Pity to see good acting wasted on fustian. . .Has moments of slapstick e> j citement but they generate a minimum of laughter .. .Whatever fun there is comes directly from the improvizing of actors and a<i ! tresses who know when a show is bad and still try to make it hang together." BARNES, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE. ".. .A Irjj of inferior jokes ... Charlie Ruggles, Fay Bainter and Helen Broderick are as droll as a weak script will allow. . .Humor is strict! ! infantile." CROWTHER, N. Y. TIMES. "...For a bit of holiday fun, I recommend '3 Is A Family'. .. Excellent cast help t I put over the amusing situation of the plot and garner as many laughs as the comedy is worth." CAMERON, N. Y. NEWS. 52 FILM BULLETIJ