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' ' OF THE
SEVEN SEAS!
The drama of the Navy's supermen is thrilling 'the nation! They're ready to fight— ready to love! Have you seen it yet? Ask the manager of your favorite theatre when it's playing !
ith DENNIS O'KEEFE
WIUIAM FRAWLEY • LEONID KINSKEY J. M. KERRIGAN • GRANT WITHERS • PAUL FIX Director, EDWARD LUDWIG
A REPUBLIC PICTURE
THE SULLIVANS— 20th Century-Fox
Saga of a splendid American family, this true and touching screen story of the five Sullivan brothers will appeal to anyone with even a streak of honest sentiment in his nature. After all, what is it but the story of the boys next door — those kids who grew up the same way as your boys, laughing and scrapping and loving, and somewhere along the way learning how to be heroes. "The Sullivans" cannot be called "another war film" at all ; being more concerned with good will and human nature than with spectacular exploits, it pictures the home life of this typical Irish-American family, from boyhood to young manhood, with rare fidelity. Only when the close-knit family devotion of the five brothers leads them to enlist, to fight and die together on the Juneau, does the picture pound home its important point, leaving you deeply stirred and grateful for such as the Sullivans — and for Hollywood, too, for glorifying them honestly and decently. A fine cast includes the likable newcomers who play -the brothers (Edward Ryan, John Campbell, James Cardwell, John Alvin.and George Offerman, Jr.) and Trudy Marshall, as their sister who joins the WAVES ; Anne Baxter, giving her usual charming and sincere performance as the youngest boy's bride ; and Thomas Mitchell and Selena Royle as Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan.
PHANTOM LADY — Universal
Sitting on the edge of your seat watching this thriller, you'll begin to think you're seeing Alfred Hitchcock's latest crime exhibit. Well, this isn't the one and only, original mystery maestro at work, but it's a reasonable facsimile of the noted director's suspenseful style— for the producer is none other than Joan Harrison, who helped concoct some of the better Hitchcock shows. Miss Harrison has great talent for building breathtaking sequences and she exerts it freely in this story of a pretty girl secretary, who refuses to believe that her handsome boss is a murderer and saves him from the chair in the proverbial nick of time, by tracking down the real criminal. Ingeniously contrived situations hold surprises for you, the biggest being Franchot Tone as — but we're not going to give the plot away. That wouldn't be fair to Ella Raines, who works hard in the role of the loyal little secretary and proves her case beyond a shadow of doubt — including the fact that she's one of the screen's important new players. Watch her step right on up the ladder in forthcoming films. The girl who looks so much like Carmen Miranda is the Brazilian's sister, Aurora. You'll like her song, "Chick-ee-Chick."
THE PURPLE HEAR I — 20th Century-Fox
This film, produced hy Darryl Zanuck, should go on top of every citizen's movie list. It covers the Jap atrocities, leaving out all the gore and hysteria. None of the value is lost in the dignified sensible approach, handled as a "murder" case in the civil courts of Japan, accusing eight boys who flew a bomber over Tokyo, with the chief of the Black Dragon Society as judge. Though you don't see them tortured, there is a terrific emotional tug when the boys return, one by one, from the interview with the superciliously grinning General of Jap Army Intelligence, seeking information about the bomber's base. Of course, the case is cutand-dried from the very beginning, but the deportment of our boys, as played by Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Kevin O'Shea, Donald Barry, Sam Levene, Charles Russell and John Craven, will give you great pride in their noble endurance.
PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE— Warner Bros.
This exciting adventure story about five patriotic convicts who escape from Devil's Island to fight for France is very deftly told in a double flashback. Scenes in the penal colony are as dismal as any you've seen, but "the action becomes more lively when the convicts, picked up by a French freighter, overthrow a mutiny and down a German plane. With almost the same cast as "Casablanca"— Humphrey Bogart, Michele Morgan, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, Claude Rains, and Sidney Greenstreet — this film does not quite reach the same height in interest.
LADY, LET'S DANCE — Monogram
Belita's second picture parades her talent for ballet, ballroom dancing as well as ice-skating, all of which furnishes plenty of eyefilling entertainment worth 88 minutes of anybody's time. She's graceful, has a fine sense of timing and can act, too. The film carries the usual thin thread of a story which generally accompanies such extravaganzas— a waitress-refugee falls into the lap of opportunity which leads her to success, while the boy who promoted her talents, through misunderstanding, feels himself left out, becomes a failure until — -this time he joins the Army. James Ellison is good as the male lead. Frick and Frack are funny.
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