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THE SHADOW STHGE
REVIEWING MOVIES OF THE MONTH j
A reliable guide to recent pictures. One check means good; two checks, outstandin.
Big, important, thrilling: Ruth Hussey, Robert Taylor, Walter Pidgeon in "Flight Command"
Magnificent surprise: James Stephenson and Thomas Mitchell in "Flight From Destiny"
" Flight Command (M-G-M)
It's About: The training of flyers by the United States Government.
LIKE a stage play, the curtain is pulled back by M-G-M in its picture "Flight Command" to reveal the authentic picture of flyers trained in our own government school of naval aeronautics. It's a big, important, thrilling, awe-inspiring picture, appealing to the intelligence and entertainment demands of audieno
It gives Bob Taylor, the recruit from acola who is transferred to the famous Hell Cat division, his best opportunity in years and how that boy to town.
On the shoulders of Commander Walter Pidgeon and his wife, Ruth Hussey, hangs the burden of the story plot; both come through with absolutely great performances.
In fact, the entire east is marvelous, the climaxes thrilling without being cheaply sensational. The production is clothed in taste and import, cannot recommend it too hightly.
Your Reviewer Says: Tin
^ Hudson's Bay (20th Century-Fox)
It's About: One man's dream of a great Canadian empire.
PONDEROUS but impressive is the history of the formation of the great Hudson's Bay Company under the guiding leadership of Paul Muni and his partner. Laird Cregar.
Done with taste and brilliancy, it is a story of Muni's dream come true, the bringing of the great country of the north under British dominion. As Radisson, who almost loses his life to accomplish his enormously ambitious plan. Muni is truly wonderful. As his partner, Laird Cregar, all 360 pounds of him, is truly mountainously clever. Gene Tierney, while lovely, .seems far out of her element; in fact, the whole i.de seems to weigh heavily on evi hands. Like "N
west Passage," the story is too concerned with geography rather than with people. Nevertheless, it's a job well done and one worth seeing.
Your Reviewer Says: Hollywood at its
dull best.
^ Flight From Destiny (Warner
It's About: The unjustifiable crime < one idealist.
WE nominate as the surprise pU ture of the year "Flight Fro: Destiny." the picture that grew bt yond Warners' wildest hopes, thanl to actor Thomas Mitchell and cas and to that brilliant newcomer amor directors, Vincent Sherman.
A brilliant achievement is this pi< ture in dialogue, theme and act in Briefly, it tells of a kindly professc Thomas Mitchell, who is given s months to live by his doctor. Jam Stephenson. Looking about for philanthropic cause, he decides to r the world of one completely und< sirable person and lights on Moi Maris, an unscrupulous unman wl has wrecked the happy marriage artist Jeffrej Lynn and his wit Geraldine Fitzgerald. Too late he di covers that instead of performing worthy deed he has set a hoi rib example for young men to follow
Perhaps bj tins time you ha
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