Screenland (Feb-Oct 1949)

not recommended in the Habit-Breaking Manual. With actual scenes in a New York City tenement district supplying a realistic setting, this is a terrifying yarn based on a Cornell Woolrich thriller. Look For The Silver Lining (Technicolor) ONE OF the best musicals of the year and based on the life story of Marilyn Miller, with June Haver in the lead ing role. The youngest daughter in a theatrical family, the parents are Charles Ruggles and Rosemary DeCamp, June starts her dancing career through the assistance of Ray Bolger. She is so terrific, by the time she is fifteen, June is the darling of Broadway. During the run of her first big time revue, June meets Gordon MacRae — ummmmmmmmm: — and later marries him. Along with excellent songs and dancing by Haver and Bolger, the story is amazingly good, and loaded with humor. Hut light and gay as it is, there are some nice meaty dramatic moments here, too. The only thing bad is that the picture has to end. The Fountainhead Warner Brothers A STRANGE and contrived story with Gary Cooper as an architect who expresses his soul in the steel and concrete of modernistic buildings. Nor is his the only driving force. There are other forms of repressed expression in this, such as Raymond Massey, the publisher, who wants to rule masses through his newspaper; Robert Douglas, a columnist, who wants to play with men's souls; and Patricia Neal, haunted by a vision of a brawny hand clutching a power drill, who destroys that which she loves. All along, there's the constant reminder that in order to be happy and free, the soul must be truthful to itself and whatever nourishes the individual soul — be it love, artistic expression, or just plain decent living — it must not be changed to another diet, no matter how tempting another concoction might be. Despite the number of faults, there are enough moments in this which are worth seeing — especially some bits done by Massey. If you like deep thinking, hidden meanings, plus pure modern architecture, this is something for which you've been waiting a long time. C-Mcm Laurel Films INTERESTING and unique and semidocumentary with Dean Jagger in the main role as a Customs agent on the trail of a fabulous necklace worth half a million smackeroos, which is being smuggled into the USA. This latest unveiling of law-in-action brings to the screen two new personalities: Lottie Elwen, a wouldbe war bride and dupe in the smuggler's plan, and Harry Landers, a baby-faced 74 Our cover girl, Susan Hayward, now starring in the 20th CenturyFox film, "Collision," greets the Summer in a Catalina Swimsuit. monster. Eventually, the score of men who died because of the necklace totals five before the sleuthing of Jagger rings down the curtain. The every day, unpretentious acting by Jagger and the others plus a high-powered story make this worth seeing. Filmed entirely in New York, there are many interesting shots of the city. Lust For Gold Columbia ALMOST everybody, at one time or the other, has dreamed of finding a gold mine, but I'll wager a gold nugget or two that this is the first picture that has actually come out and told you exactly where to look for that gold mine. The mine is anyone's for the asking, all you have to do is find the exact spot and start digging. The history of the fabulous mine is told in flashback when William Prince comes to Arizona to find the mine which his grandfather, Glenn Ford, owned in the 1800's. Piece by piece, Prince learns of the heavy toll the mine has taken in lives of people who coveted its bounty. His grandfather gained ownership through the expedient of murder, and murdered two more people, Ida Lupino and Gig Young, when he found they wanted his gold. As if the past hasn't been gory enough, Prince finds himself being stalked by a present-day killer, and the yen for gold cancels out one more life. In case you're still interested, the gold is still there — a little less than $20,000,000. Black Magic United Artists Release NO lullaby was ever calculated to put you to sleep quicker than a stare from Cagliostro ( don't pronounce the "G," please), history's greatest hypnotist. Nor was Cagliostro, played by Orson Welles, merely content with putting people to sleep — Nancy Guild, yes, but the others, no. Working on the then unknown quantity of psychology, he knew his hypnotic power could bring him wealth and world fame. A Gypsy, who saw both his parents hung for making a prediction, Orson gained this uncanny aptitude from his mother. Everything would have been fine if he just would have been content with wealth and mob adoration, but actually he believed that he was a supreme being meant to rule the world. Although his satanic soul is dispatched in the end, and Nancy finally snaps out of the trance Orson has put her in, you are left with the uncomfortable mental picture of Orson's eyes burning, burning deep, deep into your very being. . . . Yes, master .... this is the greatest, most spectacular, most thrilling, most lavish, most excitinq super production ever filmed. The Great Dan Patch (Technicolor) United Artists Release TROTTING and pacing horses have lost a great deal of their popularity with race fans, yet all the color and excitement of harness racing is still present especially when you tell the story of Dan Patch, the greatest trotting horse who ever lived. It's too bad people like Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Henry Hull keep trying to take you away from the race track and paddocks just to let you in on their stereotyped life biographies. Luckily, none of O'Keefe's trouble with his domineering wife, or Gail's love for Dennis and Dan ( the horse), affects the horse too much and he goes right on breaking record after record. It takes a stable fire to make Dennis realize he doesn't love his wife and that his rightful place is with Gail and back on the farm. Even all these happenings, including his sale, are just so much hay in the manger to Dan, and he retires in dignity as the undefeated champion. Illegal Entry U niver sal-International T MMIGR ATION Inspector George A Brent runs into quite a problem when he tries to break up a gang smuggling aliens over the Mexican border by plane. One of his suspects is Marta Toren, whose husband had been killed in the War. In an effort to find out what link she is in the gang, Brent gets one of her husband's buddies assigned to the task of getting chummy with her. So, posing as a pilot out of work, Howard Duff not only meets Marta, but gets himself a job with the gang which is operating behind a phony air freight service. Marta is in the deal, all right, up to her lovely neck, but the gang helped get her brother into this country and she's obligated to them. Just when things are going fine, and it looks as if Howard is going to get his men, they learn he's an immigration officer and his last flight really gets rough. The landing is worse — a perfect all-point crash. A fairly exciting undercover yarn with intrigue, cold-blooded killings, and stuff like that there. PRINTED I N THE USA BY THE CUNEO PRESS. INC Warners