The Film Daily (1939)

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15? Tuesday, August 22, 1939 r V% 17 DAILY tfr -V BEVIEIUS Of THE flELU flLfllS ,y # "Nurse Edith Cavell" I "These Glamour Girls" "Fifth Avenue Girl" "I Stole a Million" RKO-Radio 95 Mins. POWERFUL DRAMA OF FAMOUS WAR NURSE DISTINGUISHED BY SINCERE PERFORMANCE OF ANNA NEAGLE. K .— . is a powerful, dramatic picturization * the story of the World War heroine, whose every act is prompted by her love of humanity, but who was executed by the Germans on charges of having returned escaped prisoners to German enemies. It is a factual action, and its gripping, stirring production reflects much credit on Herbert Wilcox, who served as producer and director. Anna Neagle, enacts the title role and endows it with dignity and sincerity. Others in the prominent cast, and who all do fine work are Edna May O'iver, May Robson, George Sanders and ZaSu Pitts. Among others who appear in lesser roles but who do splendid acting are Mary Howard, Robert Coote, Sophie Stewart, Henry Brandon, Lionel Royce, H. B. Warner, Lucien Prival, Martin Kosleck, Halliwell Hobbes, Fritz Leiber, Gui Ignon, Bert Roach, Gilbert Emery, Rex Downing, Gustav von Seyffertitz and Jimmy Butler. Michael Hogan fashioned a strong screenplay, full of suspense, based on the story by Capt. Reginald Berkeley. F. A. Young and Joseph August supplied high-grade photography. At the outbreak of the World War, Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) is in charge of a nursing home in Brussels. She and Mme. Rappard (May Robson) help Mme. Rappard's grandson (Jimmy Butler) escape from the invading Germans. He flees to the border and is taken to Holland on a barge operated by Mme. Moulin (ZaSu Pitts). Nurse Edith Cavell, Mme. Rappard, Mme. Moulin and their good friend, Countess de Mavon (Edna May Oliver), have perfected a system whereby they smuggle poor, helpless escaped prisoners into Holland. However, Lieutenant Schulze (Henry Brandon) of the German forces poses as an escaped prisoner and gives the evidence which causes Edith Cavell to be tried before a German Military Court. Despite pleas and warnings that her execution would bring world wide condemnation of Germany, no leniency is shown her and the death penalty is carried out. CAST: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, ZaSu Pitts, H. B. Warner, Sophie Stewart, Mary Howard, Robert Coote, Martin Kosleck, Gui Ignon, Lionel Royce, Jimmy Butler, Rex Downing, Henry Brandon, Fritz Leiber, Gilbert Emery, Lucien Prival, Richard Deane, Bert Roach, Halliwell Hobbes, Ernst Deutsch, Egon Brecher, Will Kaufman, Gustav von Seyffertitz. CREDITS: Producer, Herbert Wilcox; Director, Herbert Wilcox; Associate Producer, Merrill G. White; From story "Dawn" by Capt. Reginald Berkeley; Screenplay, Michael Hogan; Cameramen, F. A. Young, Joseph H August; Special effects, Vernon L. Walker; Montage, Douglas Travers; Editor, Elmo Williams; Musical director, Anthony Collins; Art director, L. P. Williams. DIRECTION, Excellent. PHOTOGRAPHY, Good. 372 Theaters In Ontario Toronto — Ontario has added 18 theaters during the past year, bringing the total up to 372. with Lew Ayres and Lana Turner M-G-M 78 Mins. (HOLLYWOOD PREVIEWI GRAND ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANY THEATER AND ON ANY BILL; SHOULD CLICK SOLIDLY. "These Glamour Girls" combines good production by Sam Zimbalist, excellent direction by S. Sylvan Simon, and fine acting by the entire cast, to make this picture grand entertainment for any theater and on any bill. The parts played by Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Marsha Hunt, Anita Louise and Tom Brown are particularly outstanding, although the rest of the cast including Jane Bryan, Richard Carlson, Ernest Truex, Owen Davis, Jr., Ann Rutherford, Mary Beth Hughes, Peter Hayes and Sumner Getchell contributed fine performances. The screen adaptation of the Jane Hall, Cosmopolitan Magazine story, by Jane Hall and Marion Parsonnet was treated with great care. Lew Ayres, son of a wealthy Wall Street broker, and his room-mates, Tom Brown and Owen Davis, Jr., visit New York for the weekend before their house party at college. The boys get stewed and visit a dime-adance palace. Ayres spots one of the hostesses, Lana Turner. He takes her home, and invites her down to the house party, although he has already invited Jane Bryan, his fiancee. Lana arrives and is introduced to the girls of society, and acting very lady-like steals the show from the sub-debs. Anita Louise, one of the uppercrust, takes every opportunity to make it unpleasant for Lana. Marsha Hunt, a little older than the other girls, has been coming to the house parties for five years, 2nd is considered one of the hangers on. She overhears the conversation going on about her and makes an effort to get Tom Brown to marry her, while he is in a drunken stupor. He comes out of it just as they are about to be married, and refuses to go through with it. Marsha becomes despondent and is killed by a train when she purposely stalls her car on the tracks. Ayres's father is indicted for fraud during the weekend, and Ayres realizes that the world is not a place just to sit back and take it easy. He also realizes that he is in love with Lana, and what a swell girl she is. CAST: Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown. Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise, Marsha Hunt, Ann Rutherford, Mary Beth Hughes, Owen Davis, Jr., Ernest Truex, Sumner Getchell, Peter Hayes, Don Castle, Tom Collins. CREDITS: Producer, Sam Zimbalist; Director, S. Sylvan Simon; Author, Jane Hall; Screenplay, Jane Hall and Marion Parsonnet; Cameraman, Alfred Gilks, ASC; Art Director, Cedric Gibbons; Associate, Harry McAfee; Editor, Harold F. Kress; Musical Score by Edward Ward and David Snell; Music and Lyrics by Edward Ward and Bob WrightChet Forrest; Vocal and Orchestral Arrangements, Wally Heglin. DIRECTION, Excellent. PHOTOGRAPHY, Very Good. with Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Tim Holt, Verree Teasdale RKO 83 Mins. SPARKLING COMEDY MAKES REFRESH ! ING SCREENFARE THAT WILL PLEASE I ANY TYPE OF AUDIENCE. Witty, smartly paced and gay, here is j entertainment for the whole family. The laughs are heavy and the performances are expert. Producer-director Gregory La Cava directs the film with a sure touch in exacting the right amount of comedy from every situation, and he has also endowed it with a fine production value. Ginger Rogers , and Walter Connolly capably share the burden of the work and Verree Teasdale, Tim Holt, James Ellison, and Kathryn Adams support the principals expertly. The story is an old one, but it has been made enjoyable in the telling. Connolly, wealthy and beset with government and union troubles in his business, leaves his office for the day with a reminder from his secretary that it is his birthday. He arrives home to find his wife out with a playboy friend, his son is playing polo and his daughter has gone out with her friends. Lonely, he wanders into Central Park and bumps into our heroine. Miss Rogers. Her philosophy on life intrigues him and when he discovers she is out of a job he invites her out for the evening to help celebrate his birthday. They go to an expensive club and bump into his wife, Verree, who leaves in a huff. Connolly wakes up the next morning with a hangover, a black eye and his name in the gossip columns. He also discovers that Ginger has spent the night in one of the guest rooms. Discovering that his little spree and attentions to Ginger has at least caused his wife to become interested in what he is doing, he decides to keep Ginger at the house to try and bring his family back together again. Connolly neglects his business and Tim Holt, his son, is forced to do some work in the office. Verree decides she better stay home and try and hold on to her husband, and the daughter, Kathryn Adams, marries the chauffeur, Ellison, who has communistic tendencies until he gets married and goes into business for himself. Tim discovers that Ginger has just been working for his father and decides when the great unveiling scene takes place that she means too much to him to let her go. Verree decides to make beef stew for her husband again and everybody is happy. CAST: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Kathryn Adams, Tim Holt, James Ellison, Franklin Pangborn, Louis Calhern, Ferike Boros, Theodore von Eltz, Alexander D'Arcy. CREDITS: Producer and Director, Gregory La Cava; Screenplay, Allan Scott; Cameraman, Robert de Grasse; Editors, William Hamilton and Robert Wise. DIRECTION, Top-Notch. PHOTOGRAPHY, Fine. Hickey Joins Mednikow Chicago — Duke Hickey, former Universal exploiteer has joined Johnny Mednikow Exchange, to do spe Marlene Dietrich Arrives Marlene Dietrich arrived on the Queen Mary yesterday on her way to Hollywood where she will star cial exploitation work on "When I with James Stewart in a Universal Germany Surrenders." I picture, "Destry Rides Again." with George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran Universal 80 Mins. CRIME MELLER HAS PLENTY OF FAST ACTION AND A CAPABLE CAST. Setting a fast pace at the opening gun, this picture will hold the attention of audiences until it is over. It has action, melodrama, a human interest story and a good cast to put it over. George Raft and Claire Trevor handle the principal roles skillfully and Dick Foran is helpful. The rest of the cast is adequate and experienced. Raft, a taxi driver, gets in a row with the manager of a cab finance company over payments he has made on a new cab. He takes his own money, but faces arrest. He decides to make a break for it and escapes with a pair of handcuffs still dangling from one arm. A bum on a train tells him where he can get them taken off. However, he is made the stooge for a gang of crooks and is marked as a bank bandit when the gang escapes. He meets Claire and falls in love with her, wins enough money in a crap game to buy a garage in a small town upstate and their married life is happy for a year. The law finds out his whereabouts and he again becomes a fugitive. He misguidedly steals more and more money to protect his wife and baby. But Claire finally forces him to give himself up so that when he has served his sentence they can at least have some peace together. CAST: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Henry Armetta, Victor Jory, George Chandler, Irving Bacon, Tom Faddon, Robert Elliott, Joe Sawyer. CREDITS: Associate Producer, Burt Kelly; Director, Frank Tuttle; Original Story, Lester Cole; Screenplay, Nathaniel West; Cameraman, M. Krasner; Editor, E. Curtis. DIRECTION, Fast. PHOTOGRAPHY, Good. "Port of Hate" with Polly Ann Young, Kenneth Harlan, Carleton Young Times Pictures 57 Mins. PROGRAM MELLER HAS ABLE CAST AND ACTION IN TROPICAL SETTING. This picture will fill program needs nicely with a capable cast making the most of an action story in the tropics. Polly Ann Young, Kenneth Harlan and Carleton Young headline the cast. Miss Young, a pearl buyer, runs afoul of the law when she is in a room where a murder is committed. Hunted by the police she is helped to escape by a Chinese friend. Later, living at a house belonging to Carleton Young, partner of the murdered man, she falls in love with him. However, he suspects her of the murder and it is not until the gang of poachers who hope to get his pearl beds are exposed that everything is straightened out. CAST: Polly Ann Young, Kenneth Harlan, Carleton Young, Shia Jung, Monte Blue, Frank La Rue. CREDITS: Director and Producer, Harry S. Webb; Screenplay, Joe O'Donnell; Cameraman, Edmund Kull; Editor, Bob Jahns. DIRECTION, 0. K. PHOTOGRAPHY, Fair.