The Film Daily (1947)

to his death o\er the cliffs. Paul is ready to forget everything but Marise cannot forgive herself. Unburdening her heart to the doctor she finds courage to face Paul who is waiting at home for her. Dick Tracy Meets Karloff RKO RADIO CAST: Ralph Byrd. Boris Karloff, Anne Gwynne, Lyle Latell, Tony Barrett, June Clayworth. CREDITS: Producer, Herman Schlom; Director, John Rawlins; Screenplay, Eric Taylor, Robert Kent; From the cartoon strip by Chester Gould. Synopsis: Pits detective ace of the comic strips against the top horror-man of films. A Double Life UNIVERS.\L-INTERNATIONAL CAST: Ronald Colman, Sogne Has so, Edmond O'Brien, Phillip Loeb, Ray Collins, Tony Ross, Millard Mitchell, John Drew Colt. CREDITS: Producer, Michael Kanin; Director, George Cukor. Synopsis: Ronald Colman, an outstanding Broadway actor, is greatly influenced by his stage roles. While playing Othello in which he kills Desdemona, played by Signe Hasso, he becomes obsessed with the role until he kills a waitress in the same manner. Through the efforts of Edmond O'Brien, press agent for the theater, the murder is pinned on Colman. He commits suicide, stabbing himself during the play. Escape Me Xever \VARXER BROS. CAST: Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Gig Young, Reginald Denny, Isobel Elsom, Albert Basserman, Ludwig Stossel, Milada Mladova, George Zoritsch, Helen Thimig, Frank Puglia, Frank Reicher. CREDITS: Producer, Henry Blanke; Director, Peter Godfrey; Screenplay, Thames Williamson, Lenore Coffee; From the novel and play by Margaret Kennedy; Cameraman, Sol Polito. Synopsis: Four-Cornered romance of struggling musicians, with Venice and London as backgrounds. Ever the Beginning WARNER BRO.S.-UNITED STATES PICTURES CAST: Lilli Palmer, Sam Wanamaker, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Hale, Hugo Hans, Gale Robbins, Stella Adler, Benny Baker, Sumner Getchell, Ian Wolfe, Sidney Blackmer, J. Farrell MacDonald, James Gleason, John Banner, Tom Dillon, Sidney Tomak. CREDITS: Director, Elliott Nugent; Screenplay, Allen Boretz; From a play by Lucille Prumbs and Sarah 6. Smith; Cameraman, Ernest Haller. Synopsis: The story of an immigrant girl and others of foreign origin who find opportunity, inspiration and romance in the U. S. .\. The Exile UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL CAST: Doug'as Fairbanks, Jr., Maria Montez, Paule Croset, Robert Wednesday, Seotelnber 10, 1947 Coote, Nigel Bruce, Henry Doniell, Otto Waldis, William Trenk, Eldon Gorst, Michele Haley. CREDITS: Producer, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Director, Max Opuls. Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is Charles II. King of England, in exile in cognito in Holland during the rule of Oliver Cromwell. In Holland, he is befriended by peasant girl Paule Croset. He also meets Maria Montez, emissary of King Louis XIV. She gives him a valuable music box which he sells to pay off hte mortgage on Paule's farm. He is pursued by the Roundheads, and with the help of his Cavaliers and his own dashing athletic feats, he escapes at just the moment when he is told that he has been recalled to the throne. Fighting Father Dunne RKO RADIO CAST: Pat O'Brien, Myma Dell, Darryl Hickman, Una O'Connor, Arthur Shields, Charles Kemper, Ruth Donnelly, Don Gift. CREDITS: Executive Producer, Jack J. Gross; Producer, Phil L. Ryan; Director, Ted Tetzlaff; Screenplay, Martin Rackin, Frank Davis. Synopsis: Father Peter Dunne (Pat O'Brien), Pastor of a St. Louis church, distressed at the conditions under which scores of the city's newsboys live, begs permission from the Archbishop to start a home which will keep them off the streets and out of trouble. With only his persuasive ways and a sublime faith as capital, he takes over a ramshackle old house. His first guests are Jimmy (Dunn Gift), Tony (Billy Cummings) and Chip (Billy Gray), from whom he habitually buys his newspapers. The three boys help him clean and fit up the house for occupancy. When three other boys are arrested for stealing a pony and cart, Father Dunne assumes responsibility for them and persuades the ownei (Arthur Shields) not to file a complaint. Soon, with the help of a kindly neighbor (Una O'Connor) and some local merchants. Father Dunne has a steadily growing "family" and all the equipment needed to care for them. A real problem arises in circulation gang fights which results in one of the boys coming under the domination of his father, an ex-convict. This boy. Matt (Darryl Hickman) is involved in a robbery and seeks haven from the police with Father Dunne. .A.bout to give himself up. Matt, hysterical with fear, shoots an officer and is sentenced to be hanged. Father Dunne works desperately to have his sentence commuted but with no success. He stays with the boy until the last. Depressed at his failure to save Matt, Father Dunne considers giving up his work but receives new inspiration in the plea from a small boy who seeks his aid. F«»re'/er Amber (TECHNICOLOR) 20th-CENTURY-FOX CAST: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Jessica Tandy, Anne Revere. CREDITS: Darryl F. Zanuck presentation; Producer, William Perlberg; Director, Otto Preminger; From the novel by Kathleen Winsor; Screenplay, Philip Dunne, Ring Lardner, Jr.; Adaptation, Jerome Cady. Synopsis: The film version of the Kathleen Winsor best-seller begins when Amber St. Clare (Lina Darnell) is discovered in a tavern by several cavaliers of the court of Charles II. Among these are Bruce Carlton (Cornel Wilde) and Lord Almsbury (Richard Greene). Qutting her job, she follows them to London and there embarks on a career as an actress. Living in the grand manner, Amber falls into debt and is thrown into prison. Meanwhile, Bruce has gone to sea and Almsbury has left London. Amber escapes from prison and finally is taken under the protection of Captain Rex Morgan (Glenn Langan). When Bruce returns he fights a duel with Morgan, and mortally wounds him. Disgusted with Amber, Bruce leaves again and Amber takes up with the Earl of Radclyffe (Richard Haydn), eventually marrying him. During the height of the plague she again finds Carlton, and nurses him through the dread illness. When Bruce leaves ag^in, Amber, through her husband, the Earl, meets King Charles II (George Sanders) at court. Radclyffe perishes in the great London fire. While at court, where she is Charles' favorite. Amber meets Bruce again, who this time is married. -\mber plots to make Bruce suspicious of his wife's relations with the King. But Charles gets to the bottom of the plot, and casts off .4mber. In the meantime. Amber sees Bruce sail for America knowing that he will never return. She remains in England, dispirited and heartsick, realizing that her gay career is at an end. The Foxes of Harrow 20th-CENTURY-FOX CAST: Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Vanessa Brown, Victor McLaglen, Patricia Medina, Gene Lockhart, Charles Irwin, Hugo Haas, Dennis Hoey. CREDITS: Producer, William A. Bacher; Director, John M. Stahl; Screenplay, Wanda Tuchock; Based on the novel by Frank Yerby. Synopsis: Gambler Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) arrives in New Orleans penniless, and starts to build the fortune which is to make him eventually the master of Harrow, richest plantation in Louisiana. After wooing and winning the proud Odalie (Maureen O'Hara) for his bride, he finds that their relationship is a cold and unnatural one. Struggling between his love for his wife, and the need for companionship which she refuses to give him, Harrison takes up with the beautiful Desiree (Patricia Medina). In the meantime, Odalie has borne him a crippled son who soon dies, and their estrangement is complete. When a banking panic threatens Stephen's fortune, Odalie pitches in to save his crops and plantation. Her efforts in his behalf break down the barrier between them, and they prepare to start a new and happy life together. Frieda UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL J. ARTHUR RANK CAST: David Farrar, Glynis Johns, * DRAMA * Flora Robson, Albert Lieven and Mai Zetterling. CREDITS: Producer, Michael Balcon; Director, Basil Dearden; Screenplay, Angus MacPhail, Ronald Miller. Presented by Ealing Studios. Synopsis: Farrar as an English soldier brings his German bride, Miss Zetterling, home to his small English village before the end of World War II. There is deep resentment among the local people and even his family against Miss Zetterling and to further upset Farrar, Miss Zetterling, whom he has married in a Protestant church after she aided his escape from a German prison camp, is a Catholic and does not consider the marriage valid. She wishes to delay the Catholic ceremony when she notices the hostility of the village and realizes that Farrar has married her out of gratitude. The situation changes in six months and after a near tragedy, the village takes Miss Zetterling to its bosom and falling in love with her, Farrar goes through the ceremony to really make her his bride. The Fugitive RKO RADIO CAST: Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armandariz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo, Ward Bond, Robert Armstrong, John Qualen, CREDITS: Producers, John Ford, Merian C. Cooper; Director, John Ford; Screenplay, Dudley Nichols. Synopsis: A powerfully told drama of a man hunted because of what he believed . . . helped only by a woman scorned . . . betrayed for a handful of silver. Made entirely in Mexico, it offers a deep, emotional theme with an iniusual, exotic setting. The GaUant Blade COLUMBIA ; Synopsis: France, exhausted aftql thirty years of war with all of Europ^, is staggering back to recovery in 1648, but the recovery is threatened by tfve personal ambition of Marshal Turenne, military advisor to the Queen, who, is determined to prolong the war artd gain more personal fame and fortune. Opposed to his plans are General Conde and his aide, Lt. Piccard, who have led the victorious French armies and now desire only peace and prosperity for France. Turenne arranges a plot which will discredit the two, and enlists the aid of Nanon de Lartigues, a beautiful French girl who has served him as a spy in the paSt, to assist him. Nanon, however, falls in love with Piccard and does her best to aid him in thwarting the Marshall. Conde is captured, and through trickery by Turenne, it is made apparent to Piccard that Nanon assisted in his capture. The truth, however, is brought to him in time for the pair, assisted by a strong patriotic underground movement, to free Conde and cause the arrest of Turenne. War is finally averted and Piccard and Nanon are free to marry. Gentleman's Agreement 20th-CENTURY-FOX CAST: Gregory Peck. Dorothy Mc A Section of THE FILM DAILY — Pictures of Tomorrow and Directors' Number 75