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pal. Margaret Lindsay, the bride, follows in a state of high indignation, and the outcome is swell.
* HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY, THE-Wanger
United Artists
As a gambler's wife, Joan Bennett is whirled from ttie heights of luxury to the depths of despair when husband George Raft is sentenced to Alcatraz. Then Walter Pidgeon enters the picture. The social problems of a convicts "widow*' make for compelling drama. Gladys George is excellent as Joan's friend. (.Apr. )
HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, THE—
Universal
Hawthorne's famous classic comes to the screen with Vincent Price as the man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit. Ever-faithful to Price is his sweetheart. Margaret Lindsay, who suffers George Sanders' continuing menace until her lover can return to her. The atmosphere of evil is well created. (.May)
* HUMAN BEAST-Juno
Grim and bitter is Jean Renoir's mature direction of a family of drunkards, with member Jean Gabin powerless to conquer a lust to kill. A warped childhood gives the woman he loves, Simone Simon, no strength to help him overcome the curse of his ancestry. Stark realism, but gripping. {June)
• IRENE-RKO-Radio
The famous stage success hits the screen with Anna Neagle as the beautiful salesgirl who is set up in an exclusive dress shop as a model. Ray Milland is her benefactor, but the girl worries you when she seems to prefer his rival, Alan Marshal. The film has a lilting quality and "Alice Blue Gown" will haunt you throughout the unreeling of this. {June)
• IT ALL CAME TRUE-Warners
If you missed Photoplay's March Movie Book, you might think this is another gangster melodrama, with Humphrey Bogart holding a club over the heads of stage-struck Ann Sheridan and composer Jeffrey Lynn in order to buy sanctuary in a boarding house run by their widowed mothers. But the picture ends on a gay musical note, with ZaSu Pitts, Una O'Connor and Jessie Busley adding their individual touches. {Jam)
• IT'S A DATE-Universal
Here is a great picture, full of charm, good music, superb performances— and Deanna Durbin. She's the precocious daughter of a famous actress (Kay Francis, staging a comeback de luxe), who becomes her mother's rival for a stage role — and the affections of Walter Pidgeon. The unraveling is done in an entertaining fashion. Don't miss this. (June)
I TAKE THIS WOMAN-M-G-M
With lesser stars than Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr — cast as a doctor and his wife, for whom
he deserts his poor man's practice — this secondrate story might have been passable. As it is, Verree Teasdale contributes the only brightness to a dull film. (Apr.)
LION HAS WINGS, THE-Korda-United Artists
Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson and other British players contributed their services to this, which is frankly war-time propaganda showing what the Royal Air Force can do — but it's well-done propaganda and a lesson in preparedness. (.1 pr .)
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK-20th Century-Fox
Alice Faye and Fred MacMurray do some gallant trouping as a couple of happy-go-lucky waterfront people who help Robert Fulton (Richard Greene) launch his invention, the steamboat, but the net result is an opulent masterpiece of banality about the days when Manhattan was young. (Apr.)
LONE WOLF STRIKES, THE-Columbia
Warren William plays the not-too-reformed crook who -teps back into his nefarious practices to help Joan Perry recover a string of pearls — and gets mixed up in a murder for his pains. It's the old formula, but it's still good. (Apr.)
MAN FROM DAKOTA, THE-M-G-M
There's a Civil War background for drama, Wallace Beery and Donald Meek for riproaring humor, Dolores Del Rio and John Howard for romance,
and an exciting dash through the Confederate lines for some bang-up suspense. It's all a bit mixed up, but undeniably interesting. (.Apr.)
MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK, THE-20th Century-Fox
In this remake of "The Valiant," Lloyd Nolan does excellent work as the confessed murderer who refuses to reveal either his name or his reason for the crime. Jean Rogers is sympathetic and appealing as the sister who tries to make him talk. (Apr.)
MARINES FLY HIGH, THE-RKO-Radio
An overdone melodrama of two marines. Richard Dix and Chester Morris, after the same girl, Lucille Ball, who needs them to save her plantation from bandits. (May)
MILLIONAIRE PLAYBOY-RKO-Radio
Guaranteed to tickle the Penner fans. Joe has a complex that results in hiccup when any pretty girl kisses him, and plenty want to do it. Linda Hayes is the one who finally cures him. (May)
MUSIC IN MY HEART-Columbia
Tony Martin returns to star as a Broadway understudy who's threatened with deportation just as he gets his big chance. He crashes into Rita Hayworth's taxi — comes love — and the result is a pleasant little musical with nice tunes and Andre Kostelanetz to play them. (Apr.)
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