Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

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School of Music. 3062 Brin Please send me Free Booklet and Pi i won hi 1 1 he to play (Name Instru BRIEF REVIEWS Benched for a lively United Artists movie: Jim Brown, Barbara Britton of "Young And Willing" VINDICATES PICTURE WAS RATED "GOOD" WHEN REVIEWED w INDICATES PICTURE WAS RATED "OUTSTANDING" WHEN REVIEWED Name AfldrcsR \S ACROSS 7 HE PACIFIC — Warners: Exciting, well done melodrama about the roundup of Jap spies and saboteurs by an American agent, with Humphrey Bogart as the agent, Sidney Greenstreet as a Jap agent and Mary Astor as a mysterious damsel. The three principals cook up a lot of excitement and thrills. (Nov.) ATLANTIC CONVOY— Columbia: This story of a Marine base off the Iceland coast is a timely little number. A mysterious weather man, John Beal, is suspected of being the tip-off agent to Nazi submarines interfering with our convoys. Virginia Field plays a rescued nurse and Bruce Bennett is the Marine commanding officer. (Dec.) • BERLIN CORRESPONDENT— 20th CenturyFox: A neat little package of melodrama, with Dana Andrews an American news commentator in Berlin who slips information via air to his New York paper. When pro-Nazi Virginia Gil more sets out to trap him, she discovers how own father to be the informer. (Nov.) ^V BETWEEN US GIRLS— Universal: Diana Barrymore scores a knockout as the daughter who hopes to help along her mother's romance with John Boles by posing as a twelve-year-old. Robert Cummings, a friend of Boles, attempts to amuse little Diana and finds himself a victim of riotous conspiracy. Kay Francis is beautiful as the mother, and Andy Devine very good. (Nov.) y BIG STREET, THE— RKO Radio: An unex pected delight in this Damon Runyon story. It's aura of unusualness, its charm and appeal are strictly Runyonesque. Lucille Ball is the ruthlessly unfeeling night-club performer, permanently crippled, and Henry Fonda is the bus boy who blindly adores and serves her. Both give superb performances and create living characters. (Nov.) \/\/ BLACK SWAN. THE— 20th Century-Fox: Tyrone Power scores mightily as the reformed pirate who casts his lot with Laird Cregar and with the aid of Thomas Mitchell sets out to clear the sea of pirates, including George Sanders. Enamored of beautiful Maureen O'Hara who spurns him, Ty rone kidnaps her on his way to the sea. It's colorful, rowdy and romantic. (Jan.) BUSSES ROAR— Warners: Spies and saboteurs commandeer the night bus from Los Angeles to San Francisco, planting a bomb timed to explode as the bus reaches vital oil fields, but, like the story, the bomb fails to explode at the right time. Richard Travis is a passenger Marine; Peter Whit ney as a Nazi and Julie Bishop as a stranded pas senger are among those present. (Nov.) CAIRO — M-G-M: This isn't very good, but it does have its moments of fun with Bob Young as an American correspondent in Cairo and leanette MacDonald as an American singer who's the dupe of Nazi sympathizers. The way the two chase each other around is a caution. Jeanette singL beautifully and Ethel Waters is superb as the maid. (Nov.) ( ANAL ZONE — Columbia: It's the same old story of the young upstart in aviation training who finally gets his comeuppance and turns out to be a man and a hero. John Hubbard is the believable smartie. Chester Morris the flying instructor, and Harriet Hilliard the lone female of the cast. (Nov.) 20 CAREFUL. SOF7 SHOULDERS— 20th Centur> Fox; Everything happens to everybody and little oi it makes sense. Lovely Virginia Bruce, a Wash ington socialite scatterbrain, gets involved with Nazi agents under the impression that they're our own Secret Service men. Jimmy Ellison is the strong armed boy friend and Sheila Rvan and Aubrev Mather stand out clearly. (Dec.) CITY OF SILENT MEN— P.R.C.: When a small town mayor turns over a local cannery to a group of ex-convicts as a rehabilitation experiment, the town folk grumble and eventually flare into rebel lion when a murder is committed. Frank Albert son, June Lang, Jan Wiley and Emmett Lvnn head the cast, but the picture's strictly small-time. (Dec." ^DESPERATE JOURNEY Warners: A thriller in this melodrama, telling of the adventure* of a group of R.A.F. flyers whose bomber crashes in Germany. They escape the Germans and then comes their desperate attempt to evade German officer Raymond Massey and make their way back to England. Errol Flynn is the squadron leader and the flyers include Ronald Regan and Alar Hale. (Nov.) DRUMS OF THE CONGO— Universal: It seem we need certain meteoric mineral for our defend industries, so Don Terry of the Armv Intelligent-. is dispatched to the African jungle to 'get it. but he SHADOW STAGE Pictures Reviewed in This Issue Army Surgeon . 99 Casablanca 4 Cat People 100 Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant 98 Dr. Renault's Secret 100 Gentleman Jim 98 Great Gildersleeve. The 99 Happy Go Lucky 98 Lady From Chungking 100 Life Begins At Eight-thirty 4 Lucky Jordan 97 Moscow Strikes Back 1 0 1 Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch 100 Nightmare 99 Northwest Rangers IOC Once Upon A Honeymoon 97 Random Harvest 4 Reunion 97 Seven Miles From Alcatraz 99 Silver Oueen 1 00 Street Of Chance 1 00 Strictly In The Groove 98 Whistling In Dixie 100 Who Done It? 101 Wrecking Crew 100 photoplay combined with movte mirror