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v'v'v' (F) Down to the Sea in Ships (Twentieth Century-Fox)
ALL hands on deck for this not-to-be-missed movie! It’s powerful and deeply moving. Lionel Barrymore is magnificent as an Old Salt in command of a New England whaling vessel in 1887. Dean Stockwell is his fine young grandson. As First Mate, Richard Widmark is a credit to his calling. Richard has studied marine biology, just so much newfangled nonsense to the old captain. But Dean drinks it in, wide-eyed. Tension reaches a climax when Widmark breaks an iron-clad rule during the rescue of Dean, caught in a storm.
No use spoiling it for you by revealing the rest of it. Suffice to say that, even without the usual love story, there are plenty of heartthrobs on this adventure-packed voyage.
Your Reviewer Says: One whale of a picture.
Adventure at high tide: An 1887 epic of whales and men carries Richard Widmark and Dean Stockwell into stormy waters
^ (F) My Dream Is Yours (Warners)
0 PRING is here and with it a Technicolor musical-ro-IJ mance full of zip and zing. Jack Carson and Doris Day make a pleasing twosome in roles cut to their measure.
Jack, a Hollywood radio talent scout, is in search of a singer to replace Lee Bowman on S. Z. Sakall’s program. Bowman, whose crooning has the gals swooning, lets success go to his head. To the dismay of advertising man Adolphe Menjou and his wise-cracking assistant, Eve Arden, Lee refuses to renew his contract with Sakall, the agency’s top account. That’s when fast-talking Carson goes into action, coming up with Doris. However, selling his new discovery is quite another matter, and selling himself to Doris is the toughest job of all. While she’s grateful enough to Jack, it’s Lee who makes her heart beat faster.
Doris puts over her songs with a bang; Carson clowns with Eve Arden’s aid; Bowman is convincing as a giltedged heel. There’s an amusing cartoon sequence and, to top it all, Frankie Carle at the keyboard.
Your Reviewer Says: Fast and funny.
Love on the air-ways: Talent scout Jack Carson and
(A) Quartet (Rank-Eagle Lion)
singer Doris Day go their merry ways in radio romance
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FOR sophisticates on the lookout for a different picture, this is it! But then W. Somerset Maugham is a storyteller of the first Rank — in this case, J. Arthur. Assisted by a top-notch cast, author and producer present four delightful stories making for supremely satisfying entertainment.
“The Facts of Life” is a highly amusing account of how a father’s advice to his young son, off for Monte Carlo, acts as a boomerang. In a more serious vein, there’s “The Alien Corn,” dealing with a frustrated artist who lives for his music alone. The third tale, “The Kite,” describes the curious revenge a wife takes when her husband leaves her to return to his overindulgent mother. Finally, there’s “The Colonel’s Lady,” a satirical portrait of an egotistical Englishman, whose mousey wife surprises him by writing a volume of passionate verse. Cecil Parker is excellent in this; indeed, all performances are of first calibre down to bit parts.
Author Maugham himself appears to introduce his “Quartet” to you.
FW Outstanding
Your Reviewer Says: Simply ripping!
and Best Performances See Page 37. For Brief Reviews of Current Pictures See Page 38.