Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1950)
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Brief Reviews
t/VV (F) ANNIE GET YOUR GUN — M-G-M: Wonderful film version of the smash Broadway musical. Betty Hutton is outstanding as the world’s top gal sharpshooter. Howard Keel is a great new find as the object of her affections. With Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, J. Carroll Naish. (June) k^}4 (A) ASTONISHED HEART, THE — RankU-I: In this British triangle drama, studded with lots of smart talk, Noel Coward plays a psychiatrist whose love life is a mess. With Margaret Leighton, Celia Johnson. Super-sophistication, this. (May) ✓✓ (F) BIG HANGOVER, THE — M-G-M : Van Johnson’s not allergic to love when pyschiatry student Elizabeth Taylor tries to cure him of his allergy to liquid spirits. It’s gay and good looking. (June) k/k/ (F) BIG LIFT , THE— 20th Century-Fox: Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas appear as a couple of GI’s who help run the air lift that beats the Russian blockade of Berlin. Cornell Borchers and Bruni Lobel are their frauleins. (June)
BLACK., HA ND— M-G-M > ■ " *
/tidn crime nfellef woven around gangsters known as “Black Hand” in New York of 1908. With Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, Marc Lawrence. (April)
yy* (F) CAPTAIN CAREY, U.S.A.— Paramount: This lively mystery meller, jam-packed with intrigue, stars Alan Ladd as an ex-OSS officer who returns to Italy in search of a murderer. With Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer. Good suspense. (May) t/ 54 (A) CAPTURE, THE— RKO: A pyschological melodrama set in modern Mexico with Lew Ayres as a hunted murderer who tells his gripping story to priest Victor Jory. Teresa Wright is appealing as Lew’s wife. (June)
✓ 54 (F) CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR— PopkinUA: Quiz shows and Big Business get quite a kidding in this satire which stars Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price. (May)
(F) COMANCHE TERRITORY— U-I : A routine cowboy-and-Indian epic with Maureen O’Hara as a tough saloon operator, Macdonald Carey as the inventor of the Bowie knife, Pedro DeCordoba and Rick Vallin as imposing Comanches. (June)
✓✓ (F) CURTAIN CALL AT CATCUS CREEK — U-I: The hilarious trials of a broken-down repertory company with Donald O’Connor as a stagestruck prop-man who saves the show. Vincent Price and Eve Arden add to the fun. (June)
✓ 54 (F) DAUGHTER OF ROSIE O'GRADY,
THE — Warners: A St. Patrick’s Day special, starring June Haver and Gordon MacRae with James Barton, Gene Nelson. (May)
✓✓ (A) D.O.A. — Popkin-UA: This unusual whodunit has Edmond O’Brien solving his own murder. With Pamela Britton, Luther Adler. (April)
✓$4 (F) EAGLE AND THE HAWK, THE— PineThomas-Paramount : John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Dennis O’Keefe pool their talents in this elaborate spy story. (May)
\ / (F) I WAS A SHOPLIFTER — U-I: Routine melodrama about a shoplifting ring. With Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King. (May)
(F) JIGGS AND MAGGIE OUT WEST — Monogram : Comic-strip cut-ups by the late Joe Yule and Renie Riano who get involved in feudin’ when they try to stake claim to their mining property. (June)
✓ 54 (F) KEY TO THE CITY— M-G-M: Love and politics are the ingredients of a daffy comedy with
Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Frank Morgan. (April) ✓✓ (F) MOTHER DIDN'T TELL ME— 20th Century-Fox: Dorothy McGuire and William Lundigan make a delightful twosome in an amusing story of marriage and medicine. With June Havoc. (April) ✓✓ (F) NANCY GOES TO RIO — M-G-M : Jane Powell as a bouncy teen-ager sets out to cop her jctress-mother’s part in a play and her boy friend. With Ann Sothern, Barry Sullivan, Carmen Miranda. Louis Calhern, Scotty Beckett. (May)
✓ (F) NEVADAN, THE — Columbia: Randy Scott is on outlaw Forrest Tucker’s trail in this rugged action-packed Western. With George Macready, Frank faylen, Jeff Corey, Dorothy Malone. (April) \yy2 (A) NO MAN OF HER OWN— Paramount Barbara Stanwyck suffers in fine style in this melo
With John Lund, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl
(May)
✓✓ (A) /VO SAD SONGS FOR ME— Columbia : This poignant drama brings Margaret Sullivan back to the screen as an attractive young wife and mother dying of cancer. With Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindtors, Natalie Wood. (May)
✓ 54 (A) ONE WAY STREET— U-I: James Mason js his menacing self again as an illegal doctor hired by gangster, Dan Duryea. Marta Toren is Dan’s girl who runs off to Mexico with Mason and suffers the consequences. Not for the squeamish. (June)
✓ /4 (F) OUR VERY OWN — Goldwyn: A family drama of a young girl’s heartbreak upon discovering she was adopted. With Ann Blyth, Farley Granger. Joan Evans, Ann Dvorak, Jane Wyatt. (April)
✓ (F) OUTRIDERS, THE— M-G-M: J9el McCrea. Barry Sullivan, James Whitmore, fugitives from Union prison camp, pose as outriders for a wagon train, headed by Ramon Novarro, which is carrying a million dollars and Arlene Dahl. (June)
✓ (F) OUTSIDE THE WALL — U-I : Richard Basehart does a good job as an ex-convict who finds he isn’t really free outside. With Marilyn Maxwell, Dorothy Hart, Signe Hasso, John Hoyt. (April) ✓✓ (A) PERFECT STRANGERS — Warners: Hearts are on trial in an absorbing courtroom drama teaming jurors Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan. With Thelma Ritter, Margalo Gillmore. (April) ✓✓ (F) PLEASE BELIEVE ME — M-G-M: Robert Walker, Peter Lawford and Mark Stevens compete for Deborah Kerr in a slick comedy about a would-be British heiress. (June)
✓✓54 (F) REFORMER AND THE REDHEAD, THE — M-G-M: June Allyson and hubby Dick Powell team up in a comedy about a young lawyer, campaigning for mayor. There’s wonderful slapstick with a lovable lion. David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway, Marvin Kaplan have a high time of it, too. (June)
✓✓ (F) RIDING HIGH — Paramount: Horse-happy Bing Crosby tosses off trouble with a song and a joke in an entertaining racetrack romance. With Coleen Gray, Frances Gifford, Charles Bickford, Ravmond Walburn, William Demarest. (April) ✓✓ (F) ROCK ISLAND TRAIL— Republic : A lusty, colorful Western about the building of the Rock Island R.R. With Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Adrian Booth. (June)
✓ 54 (A) SECRET FURY, THE— RKO: A tantalizing thriller with Claudette Colbert confronted with a marriage she cannot remember. A couple of murders take place before Robert Ryan solves the mystery. With Paul Kelly, Jane Cowl. (June)
“Tell Me Pretty Maidens,” sings Dan Dailey to Floradora “girls” Bob Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Keenan Wynn, during Friars Frolic at Shrine Auditorium