National Board of Review Magazine (Jan 1939 - Jan 1942)
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National Board of Revieu.' Magazine
programs are aA-ailable on request. Write to Miss Augusta Shemin, International Film Festival, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City. We believe that the proposed program, listed below, will be of interest not only to local readers but to many living outside the city, as an example of international selections.
FRAXCE Grand Illusion, Mayerling, Crime et Chatiiucnt. Club de Femmes, Sous les Toits de Paris. Le Million, Generals Without Buttons, Carnct de Bal, Pearls of the Crozvn, A A^oiis La Liberie, Carnival in Flanders, Le Dernier Milliardaire. IRELAND Man of Aran. POLAND Halka. HUNGARY Janos Vites. GER^IANY (B.H.) M or The Kidnapper, The Captain of Koepenick. CZECHOSLOVAKIA (B. H.) Crisis. PALESTINE The Land of Promise. EGYPT Wedad (Slave Girl). SPAIN The Spanish Earth. ENGLAND The Thirty-Ni}ie Steps, The Ghost Goes West, Moonlight Sonata, To the Victor, The Edge of the W orld. The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Lady Vanishes. MEXICO The Adventures of Chico, The Wave. ITALY (B.M.) Cabiria.
UNITED STATES Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Modern Times, Walt Disney Acadcniv Award Reviezv, The Scoundrel, Make Way For Toniorrozv, Blockade, Night Must Fall. 100 Men and a Girl, The Good Earth. SWEDEN The Great John Ericsson. CHINA The 400 Million. GREECE Prosfvgopoula. DENAIARK Sol Over Denmark. AUSTRIA (B.H.) ZweiHersenhn Dreiviertel Takt, Tales From the Vienna Woiods.
RUSSIA Potemkin, Chapayev, Professor Mamlock. The Youth of Maxim, Childhood of Maxim Gork\, The New Gulliver. SWITZERLAND Eternal Mask. FINLAND Niskavuoren Naiset.
It has been brought to our attention that in the announcement of the Museum of Modern Art film showings in our last issue, the 25c admission might seem to apply to viewing the films, it is however the price of admission to the Museum, and the films can be viewed free by museum visitors.
(Continued from page 24) rm LUCKY NIGHT— Myrna Loy. Robert Taylor. Original screen story by Oliver Claxton. Directed by Norman Taurog. A playful and chattery comedy about a couple who got married the same day they met, and afterwards couldn't decide whether to take life
seriously or irresponsibly. The cast is the most attractive thing about the picture. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
m LUCRECE BORGIA — Edwige Feuillere, Gabrielle Gabrio. Original screen story by Leopold Marchand. Directed by Abel Gance. An ornate and somewh8,t gruesome tale of the famous Borgias, recording Caesar Borgia's plots against his enemies and his use of his sister Lucrece to help him realize his ambitions. Plenty of sustained excitement and highly dramatic moments. Recommended strictly for mature audiences on account of theme and general treatment. (French production). Gallic Films, Inc.
f NANCY DREW, TROUBLE SHOOTER— Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas. Original screen story by Kenneth Gamet. Directed by William Clemens. Nancy with the help of her boy friend solves a murder mystery and has plenty of thrills while sleuthing. Warner Bros.
f *OXLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS — Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Barthelmess. Original screen story by Jules Furthman. Directed by Howard Hawks. An air-mail story laid in tropical America, romantic, human, thrilling, well directed with an excellent cast and written with a lot of convincing detail to make its pattern seem new. It involves heroic flying and the rehabilitation of a man whose nerve had once failed him. along with an engaging love story. Columbia.
m PANAMA LADY— Lucille Ball. Allan Lane. Original screen story by Garret Fort. Directed by Jack Hivley. Melodrama, attractively acted by its two principals, about a girl from a cheap cabaret in the tropics who kept a tough engineer at a distance until he loved her properly. RKO Radio.
f ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE— Alice Faye, Tyrone Power. Al Jolson. Original screen story by John Larkin and Jerry Horwin. Directed by Gregory Ratoff. The main story is about a girl who became a Follies star, and her love for a weak and handsome lad who eventually went to prison, but there is a lot of detail in the Broadway and night life of just-after-the-war, a handsome collection of favorite old songs, and Al Jolson repeating his old Winter Garden self with fine verve. 20th Century.
fj SOUTHWARD HO!— Roy Rogers. Original screen story by John Rathmell. Directed by Joseph Kane. An interesting and colorful tale of reconstruction days in Texas. Republic.
m * STOLEN LIFE — Elizabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave. Novel by K. J. Benes. Directed by Paul Czinner. A psychological drama of twin sisters, in which Miss Bergner plays the difficult dual role with dramatic effect. The direction of Czinner is also effective. (British Production). Referred to the Committee on Exceptional Photoplays. Paramount.