Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

October, 1 945 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE 43 for the common good and for all that makes for the spirit of democracy. The people need food, but not food for the body alone ; they need food for the spirit. The enemies of liberty had taken the long-treasured town bell and had melted it for war ; now they need once again the sound of the bell to signify the freedom and the pleasure of their local life. Through kindly help by American naval officers the Major gives Adano an ancient bell, perhaps better than the one they had had before. That is the simple outline of the story. What the Major really gives to Adano, however, is the spirit of working and living together in local liberty. Just the hint of romantic love touches the story with a gentleness that adds to the superb effect that the entire production leaves upon the observer. Strong realism, always kept under control, serves as a background for the development of the powerful theme: Hoiv best can ive govern conqiiered peoples and bring them to an understanding of the aims for ivhich we have fought? THE NEW U. S. FRONTIER. March of Time, Vol. XI — No. 13. Enthusiastically recommended. The constructive power of the United States, the vastness of American resources and the energy that the American people put into the war against Japanese aggression are presented in this March of Time concerning United States work in the far Pacific islands. Principally the film shows what American technical skill already has brought about in the island of Guam — long miles of hard, four-lane roads ; level, wellconstructed airfields ; vast supplies of material ; great hospitals; deep, excellent ports; and well-manned military, naval, and air headquarters. The March of Time shows the typical palm trees and island scenes and enough of the past to emphasize the astonishing changes that our men have brought about. It shows dredges deepening the harbors and bulldozers and stone crushers at work. It shows a giant asphalt producer in full operation. Those fortunate persons who see this striking news picture will gain increased respect for American planning, skill and accomplishment; they will have every reason to admire the artistic photographic work of cameraman Victor Jurgens and the ability of March of Time editors who prepared this important lesson for the American people; some, seeing all that we have thus done in war may remember Longfellow’s words : “Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts. Given to redeem the human mind from error. There were no need of arsenals or forts.” YOU CAME ALONG. Social Comedy. Hal B. Wallis production released through Paramount. John Farrow, Director. Strongly recommended. Three rollicking musketeers of the air, full of life and happiness, set off under the guidance of a representative of the United States Treasury Department to aid in a nation-wide tour in the interests of the war. They are even more slap-happy than Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D’Artagnan rolled together, and their hilarity at the beginning of the film story leads one to expect little except farcical action. To their amazement, the Treasury representative, “1. V. Hotchkiss,” turns out to be a charming young woman (Lizabeth Scott). Daniel in the lions’ den! Sedate little Ivy in an airplane with three “wolves”! The first part of the action is badinage, romp, and laughter. Then, little by little, a serious note begins to creep in. Slowly the picture rises to self-effacing thought of others and to the pathos of broken lives. Deftly did the scenario writers and the director make the transition from lively farce to inner tragedy. In this. You Came Along differs from most other picture plays. One sequence shows the wedding of one of the flyers (Robert Cummings) in the Fliers’ Chapel of the Mission Inn at Riverside, California. Oddly enough, in all fact, during the filming of the action, Robert Cummings actually took unto himself a bride, although not the one of the picture, in that very Chapel. Because of its unusual combination of fun and seriousness, and its difference from the usual run of films. You Came Along affords good entertainment. CAPTAIN EDDIE. Biography of "Eddie" Rickenbacker. 20th Century-Fox. Lloyd Bacon, Director. Strongly recommended for all. The dramatic present-day story of that World War I “Ace of Aces,” Eddie Rickenbacker makes strong appeal in Captain Eddie. Incidentally, the picture calls to mind the progress made in the development of the automobile and of the airplane within the span of a lifetime. The motion-picture story begins with the wrecking of a United States Army transport plane somewhere on the Pacific in 1942. Throughout the film we see Captain Rickenbacker and his seven companions floating for twenty-one days in rubber life-rafts, with almost no hope