Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

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"SN^ A reliable guide to recent pictures. One check means good; two checks, outstanding Excitement in the skies: John Garfield and Gig Young in "Air Force" Gay nonsense: Dotty Lamour and Bob Hope in "They Got Me Covered" Top teamwork: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn in "Keeper Of The Flame" ^ Air Force (Warners) It's About: An American bomber, the Mary Ann, and her crew. THIS is easily one of the most exciting air pictures ever filmed. From the moment the crew comes aboard for a routine peacetime flight and the giant four-motor job, known affectionately to the men as Mary Ann, lifts into the air suspense rides with them. They catch the tail end of the Jap attack at Pearl Harbor, are ordered to go to the aid of Manila via Wake Island and arrive at their destination with barely time to refuel for their first combat action with Jap Zeros. John Garfield does an excellent job as the head gunner, embittered because of having been washed out as a pilot. Gig Young is personable in a not-too-spectacular part. Jim Brown deserves special mention along with George Tobias, John Ridgley and Harry Carey. Also Mary Ann. It's really her picture. Your Reviewer Says: Ceiling unlimited. ^ They Got Me Covered (Goldwyn-RKO) It's About: A none too bright foreign correspondent caught in a spy trap. EVERYTHING from mud-pack treatments to going over Niagara Falls in a barrel has been crowded into this amusing story starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. The result is a bit too much of a good thing. Bob is the far from brilliant foreign correspondent who is brought home from Russia after missing a scoop. He goes to Washington to visit his girl Dorothy Lamour, is tipped off to a spy ring. He detours to Niagara Falls on a phony honeymoon after a phony wedding; then dashes back to become embroiled with spy Otto Preminger, Philip Ahn and Edward Ciannelli in a beauty parlor mix-up. A lovely newcomer Lenore Aubert scores heavily. Your Reviewer Says: No rationing on this fun and nonsense. V Keeper of the Flame (M-G-M) It's About:A woman and the reporter who sets out to crack the mystery of her husband's death. MAKE no mistake — the learned critics will be combing their best selection of words to tell you that this picture is not up to the caliber of a Tracy-Hepburn vehicle. Which is true. But our bet is that the film will do all right despite these dire predictions. The story deals with newshawk Tracy who in his effort to write the life of a national hero, recently deceased under tragic circumstances, finds himself blocked at every turn by the great man's young and beautiful wife. His investigations lead him to the door of a startling dis covery, but by this time love has entered to complicate the case further. A dramatic climax somehow fails to come off as dramatically as intended. The first half of the film has all the magic of the Tracy-Hepburn duo. It is in the last part that the story gets heavyhanded. Spencer Tracy gives his usual unforced performance, but Katharine Hepburn has certainly been seen to better advantage, though there are moments when she is indeed lovely. Margaret Wycherly, young Darryl Hickman and Richard Whorf are very good. Your Reviewer Says: jangle-jingle. Box-office jingle ^ The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (Universal) It's About: A war orphan in love. THE amazing Mrs. Holliday is Deanna Durbin who, in this picture, completes the business of growing up, thereby repressing some of that warm ebullience which has helped to make her one of the loveliest girls on the screen for our admission money. Deanna, daughter of a missionary to China, pretends she married old Commodore Holliday (Harry Davenport) just before he went down with his torpedoed ship when this proves the only way she can get into the U. S. her eight (Continued on page 19) 16 For Best Pictures of the Month and Best Performances See Page 19 For Complete Casts of Current Pictures See Page 103 For Brief Reviews of Current Pictures See Page 20 photoplay combined witli movie mikkor