Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)
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FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
Volume XII, No. 6
TURK BUREAU, 19 S. LaSalle St., Chicago.
111. : Visual Aids Service, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.
B & H : Filmosound Library, Bell & Howell Co., 1834 Larchmont Ave., Chicago.
CFC : College Film Center, 84 E. Randolph St., Chicago 1.
Iowa : Bureau of Visual Instruction, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Films : Films, Inc., 64 East Lake
St., Chicago 1.
ITtfeT : International Theatrical and Television Corp., 100 West Monroe St., Chicago.
Roshon : Russell C. R o s h o n Films, 6 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
Sliding Scale : Provides lower rental rates on feature films to schools of small enrollment; under 251, 251-500, 501-750, and over 750 are the classifications.
FILM GUIDES: “Educational
A Teacher Looks at the
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“who killed the manager?” — all of which makes as dizzy a merry-go-round of witticisms, cavortings, and disportings as ever those brothers Marx rode on.
The humor is fast, the action swift, and the situations impossible. But that’s just the way those big kids “slap sticks” at each other, at the others in the picture, and at the audience. But it’s not all low-brow; because, don’t foi’get, they play music in a forthright, talented manner.
Of course, if you like them, they’d only have to sit still and you’d laugh at them. But even those who don’t care for the Marx family particularly could take a chance on this one f 0 r an evening’s entertainment. Especially amusing is Groucho’s crouching walk; call him “Croucho,”
— Frank DeLisi ★ ★ ★
THE BLUE DAHLIA. Social melodrama. Paramount. Written by Raymond Chandler. Directed by George Marshall.
Saloons, whiskey, drunkenness, murder, rough and tumble fighting, kidnapping, extortion, blackmailing, gangsters, fast
parties, illicit love — all these appear in The Blue Dahlia. Evidently director George Marshall said, “Put it all in ; make it rough ; that’s life today.” Then perhaps he said, “Make it about returned service men — make one of them shell-shocked, with a silver plate in his skull. Pep it up.”
From Shakespeare’s Titus Audronicus down through the cheap-paper “dime novels” of the 1890’s to the present, writers have produced such material, and a certain section of the public always has applauded.
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard da Silva and Doris Dowling have acting ability worthy of far better scripts.
The highly melodramatic story shows three service men just arriving in their home city. One of them (Alan Ladd) finds his wife (Doris Dowling) entertaining a houseful of riotous guests, including a new lover. Some unknown person murders the faithless wife. The I’eturned husband falls under suspicion and runs away, only to fall into the hands of gangsters. In his wanderings
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he meets a lovely blonde (Veronica Lake) , and new complications develop.
The loyalty of three service pals, and especially that of the shell-shocked man (William Bendix), highlights the story. That, with the excellent acting of Doris Dowling, and the ingenious way in which events appear to point out the actual murderer and yet, at the same time, conceal him, make deepest impression upon all who see this lurid melodrama.
F. H. L.
REPORT ON GREECE. March of Time. 20l'h-Fox release.
Small boys rummage about in heaps of waste material trying to find boy treasures and even bits of food but throw aside as uninteresting all paper money that they find. Men stand kneedeep in paper money and shovel it into mills that grind it up. Such scenes appear in the March of Time’s Report on Greece.
Against the background of stately ancient ruins, March of Time shows the Greece of today, its people starving, its villages ruined, the canal at Corinth