New Movies, the National Board of Review Magazine (Oct 1948 - Feb 1949)

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THE LUCK OF THS IRISH Tyrone Power, Anno Baxter, Cecil Kellaway, Lee J. Cobb, Screen play by Philip Dunne based on a novel by Guy and Constance Jones, Music by Cyril Mockridge. Directed by Henry Kostor. Twentieth Century-Fox* It is difficult to oombine fantasy and reality in film fiction, but it is here done with some success. The . encounter of an American newspaper correspondent with a leprechaun beside a waterfall in an Irish glen is unusual enough to stir the imagination and cause the spectator to wonder what will happen next, and especially when a soft-spoken colleon is his hostess at a wayside inn. Family* SMPC 12-14 LUXURY LIN5R George Brent, Jane Powell, Lauritz Helchior, Xavier Cugat. Screen play by Gladys Lehman 'and Richard Connoll. Musical direction by Georgie 3 toll. Directed by Richard Whorf. Uotro-GoldwynMaycr. You don't see much of the sea on this Luxury Liner but you hoar much music and learn much about love. All because the Captain's young daughter decides to go along against orders and arrange affairs for her father and herself. In Technicolor. Family* SMPC 12-14 THE MAN FROM COLORADO Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew. Screon play" by "Robert D. Andrews, Ben Maddow, from original story by Bordon Chase. Directed by Henry Levin. Columbia. A young colonel in the Union Army, deranged by war, ignores the white flag of a band of ragged, worn out Confederates and orders the entire troop wiped out.. His closo friend observes this with deep concern. At home, the war over, both fi&d themselves in love with the tfiwn belle. The colonel is appointed federal judge, marries the girl and gradually becomes more erratic, and violent. The film, wh|le failing as a psychological study of insanity 'and as a romance as well, is conspicuous for action both vigorous and varied. Family MISS T/.TLOCK'S MILLIONS John Lund, Monte Woolloy, Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald. Screen play by Charles Brackott and Richard L. Breen; suggested by a play by Jacques Doval. Directed by Richard Haydn, Paramount, Movie stunt man John Lund is hired by male nurse Barry Fitzgerald to impersonate his "eccentric" charge who has disappeared two years before inheriting six-million dollars. The rest of the Tatlccks, vultures all, reluctantly accept~him, but the conspiracy gets' into deop water when. he falts in ltr?e with a girl who thinks she is his sister. The plot is not new, and sometimes skirts the edge of bad taste, but light-hearted treatment and excellent performances make, for uniformly pleasant entertainment. Family NIGHT WIND Charles Russell^ Virginia Christine. Original story by Robert G.' North; screen play by Arnold Belgard and Robert G. North. Directed by James Tinling. Twentieth Century-Fox. A well worked out