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MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS
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MOTION • PICTURE REVIEWS
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Vol. XVIII
SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1943
No. 8
Copyright 1 943 by Motion Picture Reviews
FEATURE FILMS
THE ADVENTURES OF A ROOKIE O O
Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Richard Martin, Erford Gage, Margaret Landry. Screen play by Edward James. Direction by Leslie Goodwins. RKO.
The effort to make this a funny picture is all too apparent. With a little more abandon some of the scenes might have been hilarious, but most of the “rookie” dialogue is hackneyed, and the tenuous plot lacks originality. The characters are typed: the tough sergeant, the dumbell private, the joyous buddy, the serious hero, the stern but kindly commanding officer. It is innocuous, and for adults who have seen the same thing in better form, it is dull.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Yes, some amusing Would like it
scenes
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ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID O O
The Andrews Sisters, Patric Knowles, Grace McDonald, Charles Butterworth, Billy Gilbert. Screen play by Mel Ronson. Direction by Erie C. Kenton. Universal Pictures. A Lonely Hearts Club, which is in effect a rendezvous for sellers of bogus stock, is the setting for the Andrews Sisters to croon and the Jives and Jills to swing and sway. The plot is too thin to interest, and the rest is a matter of taste.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Matter of taste No
BOMBER'S MOON O O
George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford, Martin Kosleck, Dennis Hoey, Robert Barrat, Richard Graham, Ilka Grunning. Screen play by Kenneth Garnet. Direction by Charles Fuhr. Twentieth Century-Fox.
This romantic melodrama has some exciting sequences and a foreign atmosphere to give variety to the familiar plot of a prisoner’s escape from Nazi Germany. It is all highy improbable but offers synthetic thrills without horror.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
No value; matter of No. Too romantic
taste to interest
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THE CITY THAT STOPPED HITLER <> O
HEROIC STALINGRAD. Paramount.
This is a Russian documentary film which has been edited here, and which is augmented with narration written by John Wexley and delivered by Brian Donlevy. It is the story of Stalingrad’s defense against Nazi invasion and was photographed by Soviet cameramen on the Don and Stalingrad fronts and includes some material from captured German newsreels. It is very comprehensive and glossing over none of the horrors of war, it shows the invincible spirit of the Russian people. Well worth seeing. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
If mature No