Screenland (Jul-Dec 1948)

Your Guide To Current Films Continued from page 12 Turner, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Keenan AYynn, Vincent Price, Frank Morgan, and Angela Lansbury — all in one picture that's over two hours long! Based on the Alexander Dumas classic, there is plenty of exciting swordplay (with special honors to Gene Kelly) , diplomatic intrigue, romance and spicy dialogue. The only bad thing in the entire production is that June Allyson is foully murdered by the wicked Countess, Lana. The Luck Of The Irish 20th Century-Fox SHURE an' begorra, if you'll not be seeing this, you'll niver be knowin' how to behaive when in the coompany of a leprechaun. With Cecil Kellaway playing the most charming leprechaun and Irishman you could ever meet, you'll have a wonderful time for yourself watching Ty Power cope with one of "the wee people" who because of everlasting gratitude has followed him to New York all the way from the Emerald Isle. Not only does leprechaun Kelaway engineer it that Ty remains true to his ideals, but also that by the end of the picture Ty and Anne Baxter are well on their way to raising a lot of little Irishmen. A Song Is Born (Technicolor) Samuel Goldtcyn YOU Danny Kaye fans might be a little disappointed in his latest, because Danny doesn't break out into the type song routine he's so famous for. Instead, he plays more or less a straight role as a professor of musical research who suddenly gets mixed up with a new variation of the Three B's: boogie-woogie, a blonde, and bookies. On hand to help convert Danny are Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Lionel Hampton and other stars of swing and be-bop — a solid session for swing fans. My Dear Secretary United Artists WHAT makes this such a wonderful comedy is the lavish scattering of characters who steal in and out of scenes, and incidentally steal the scenes in the process. As the wolfish author of several best-sellers, Kirk Douglas does a fine job of being a zany, irresponsible writer until he marries his secretary, Laraine Day, who proceeds to show him that there ain't no such thing as a smart woman taking the back seat even with "genius." Keenan Wynn is just slightly terrific as Kirk's chum and self-appointed doorbellanswerer, cook and laundress. This is definitely one of the better comedies. Moonrise Republic OR, Dane Clark suffers again — and how he suffers: gets beaten up with alarming regularity, kills a man, com pletely wrecks a car he's driving, jumps off a ferris wheel, has a pack of coonhounds chase him across the countryside, and for a while it looks as though he's ill for a bad case of frostbite from Gail Russell. Being a psychological drammer, there's nothing funny here. In fact, it's a darn depressing picture. Ethel Barrymore plays Dane's grandmother, who along with Sheriff Allan Joslyn, and schoolmarm, Gail, finally sets the wayward young man straight. The Return Of October (Technicolor) Columbia WHEN you get a girl, Terry Moore, thinking a racehorse is her late, departed uncle who has returned to win the Derby, then it's only natural that a psychiatrist is on hand, too. He is, in the person of Glenn Ford. While Glenn makes a study of this strange case, the strange case falls in love with him and finally succeeds in convincing him that she isn't wacky at all — October, the horse, does win the race. For a gay, light comedy, you can't go wrong on this — and a new word will be added to your vocabulary: Schnookle, which makes its American debut. June Bride Warner Brothers ROBERT MONTGOMERY, as the star writer for a women's magazine, and Bette Davis, as Madam Editor, his boss, have quite a time for themselves when they descend on a small Indiana town to do a feature story on a wedding. The wedding takes place, but thanks to cut-up Bob, not quite as Bette had originally planned — in fact, the course of several lives is radically changed. By the way, one scene which has Bette discussing a bust of Julius Caesar, has just about the bluest dialogue ever heard in movies. No Minor Vices Enterprise — MGM NO, THERE are no minor vices in this film — there are major ones. Very confusing, and loaded with forced comedy situations, you'll find yourself feeling sorry for Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer and Louis Jourdan, as they try to make the most out of a bad picture which concerns itself with a doctor, his wife, and an artist looking for THE TRUTH. As Andrews sums it up in the final scene: there comes a time in everyone's life when the only solution to a problem is to see things the way you want to see them. . . . Enough said. 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