Motion Picture Reviews (1941)

Eight MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS SHORT SUBJECTS AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE O O Warner Bros. Like the short, short story, complete on one page, this murder mystery lacks any subjective treatment and merely outlines the case of a man indicted for a crime by circumstantial evidence and saved by the testimony of an old lady who has faith in him. It is well done and is an interesting addition to a program. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Confused ethics Unsuitable <• BOMBER O O (One Reel.) Commentary by Carl Sandburg. Produced by the Office for Emergency Management Film Unit. Released by The Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense. A filming of the manufacture and test flights of the B-26 was made at the Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore. The commentary by Car) Sandburg has the sweep and richness of his poetry, and an extraordinary musical score, largely rendered by brasses, accompanies the fabrication of the plane parts. While much of the photography of the machinery will be unintelligible to most women and some men, one cannot fail to feel the power and beauty of the giant bomber. While the immediate objective is horrible, Sandburg ends on a key of hope. ‘America flies into the dawn. Bombers for a new day.” Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 1 2 Yes, especially boys Probably beyond them <• THE TELL TALE HEART O O A dramatization from Edgar Allen Poe's works. M.G.M. The lasting quality of Poe’s works is due to his supreme artistry of expression. It is not the plots which interest today, but his word-appeal. Thus this imaginative story of the murderer whose conscience drove him mad, becomes only a macabre and depressing picture which might have been lifted out of the ordinary by the use of the original prose as commentary. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Depressing No