Screenland (Nov 1942-Apr 1943)

Itxs a REPUBLIC PICTURE HAPPY GO LUCKY — Paramount Gayest, most spontaneous movie fun of the month ! It's one long, hearty laugh from the time Mary Martin and Betty Hutton from Broadway arrive on a Caribbear isle and meet up with Dick Powell and Eddie Bracken as beachcombers. Mary's fortune-hunt for Rudy Vallet and Betty's frank pursuit of reluctant Bracken lead tc hilarious situations, accompanied by smart new songs delightfully sung. The team of Hutton and Bracken i: sure-fire for explosive comedy, and Rudy Vallee is i revelation in a character role. Be sure to see this one LUCKY JORDAN — Paramount Alan Ladd is featured in this exciting film which deal with the regeneration of a gangster chief who desert when he can't buy his way out of the Army, and find his pals doing business with Nazis. He is tempted § deal with the spies, but turns them over to the FBI in stead, and returns to the Army when their brutality plu his love for a pretty canteen worker (Helen Walker) and his "adopted" mother, help arouse his dorman patriotism. Ladd is a convincing, smooth performe as the racketeer. Good supporting cast. Has suspense ONE OF OUR AIR CRAFT IS MISSING — Korda-U./ This outstanding English-made film of this war, base on facts, tells the thrilling story of the members of a English bomber crew, forced to abandon ship and ba out over Holland after a raid on Germany. It depici the courageous lengths to which the indomitabl friendly Dutch people have gone to assist these men i their hair-raising escapes to England. Eric Portmai Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, fir as the air men ; Pamela Brown, good as a Dutc woman who helps. Realistic, convincing. Don't miss thi NIGHTMARE — Universal A mystery thriller about an American gambler (Bris Donlevy) in London, who is bombed out of busines When he tries to steal food in the home of a Briti1 girl (Diana Barrymore) he gets involved in a murd< and becomes tangled up with Nazi spies. Donlevy c, pably handles the role of the gambler who helps Dial hide her husband's murdered body. She didn't do it, b we won't reveal the killer so as not to spoil suspens Diana's performance, while good, might have been be ter if she had been less wooden. A real film chille STREET OF CHANCE — Paramount A baffling mystery melodrama about a man who accused of a murder committed during the time he w a victim of amnesia. Burgess Meredith gives a sple did performance as Frank Thompson, who is horrifr to learn he is a hunted man, after he is hit by fallii masonry and his memory is restored. He retraces 1 steps during time of his lapse of memory and finds th his sweetheart of his amnesia days, played by Clai1 Trevor, is guilty of the crime. This simply told tale packed with suspense. Sheldon Leonard is in ca ICE CAPADES REVUE — Republic Republic's ice revue features Ellen Drew and Richa Denning as the lovers; Barbara Jo Allen (Ye Vague) and Jerry Colonna as the film's funsters; a the internationally famous skating stars of the "ij Capades" troupe in dazzling skating performanc Vera Hruba, the beautiful blonde skater, does soi graceful solo numbers on ice. Lois Dworshak's 1 skates just about melt the ice when she does her jitt( bug number. The story concerns an almost bankri ice-skating show which is turned into a huge succe THE AVENGERS— Paramount This is based on the Commando raids in Nonv: Newsreel shots of actual raids heighten the interest the tale, which recounts the adventures of an Engb journalist, who is parachuted in the vicinity of camouflaged enemy sub base to try and locate its ex; position, so the RAF can bomb it out of existence, has the makings of a good movie, but its slow pace a poor recording (the fault of most English-made filrr keep it from being a first-rate war document. Hu Williams, Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, head a 12 SCREENLAND