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MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS
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MOTION * PICTURE « REVIEWS
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Vol. XVII DECEMBER No. 10
Copyright 1942 by Motion Picture Reviews
FEATURE FILMS
AMERICAN EMPIRE O O
Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford, Robert Barrat, Jack La Rue, Guinn Williams, Cliff Edwards, Merrill Guy Rodin, Chris Pin Martin, Richard Webb, William Farnum. Direction by William McGann. Producer Harry Sherman. United Artists.
A well-constructed plot, dramatic situations and clearly defined characters raise this film above the usual level of Westerns. The climax, however, seems overlong and repetitious in its protracted and horrifying scenes of men and horses caught in a terrific grass fire. The time of the story is soon after the Civil War. Dan Taylor and Paxton Bryce, river boat partners, go into the business of cattle raising in Texas and dream of establishing a great American empire of their own. The body of the film is devoted to picturing their clashes with cattle rustlers and to the changing ideologies of the two men as Bryce temporarily turns against his partner and, forgetting his obligations to his family and to his neighbors, decides to play a lone hand. The human relations are well portrayed; Frances Gifford as Taylor’s wife and Merrill Guy Rodin as Bryce’s young son contribute poignancy to the story.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Good of type Fire scene too
harrowing
AMOND THE LIVING O O
Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones, Jean Phillips, Ernest Whitman, Maude Eburne, Frank M. Thomas, Harlan Briggs, Archie Twitchell, Dorothy Sebastian, William Stack, Ella Neal, Catherine Craig, Eddy Chandler, Abe Dinovitch, Jack Curtis, Chris Frank, Besse Wade, Delmar Watson, Richard Webb, Mimi Doyle, John Kellogg, Blanche Payson, George Turner, Harry Tenbrook, Ethan Laidlaw, Charles Hamilton, Frank S. Hagney, Lee Shumway, Lane Chandler. Directed by Stuart Heisler. Paramount.
This is a psychological drama which will have a limited audience appeal. It is not satisfactory in all respects but there is fascination in its sustained horror and suspense. It portrays the way in which a man, neither completely crazed nor completely sane, reacts to a world he has been kept out of for some twenty years.
The director has retained the mood consistently and Albert Dekker gives an excellent performance in a dual role.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
No No
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ANDY HARDY'S DOUBLE LIFE O «>
Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden, Esther Williams, Robert Pittard, Bobby Lake, Susan Peters. Directed by George B. Seitz. M.-G.-M.
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