Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1946)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, February 9, 1946 43 ADVANCE DOPE PERILOUS HOLIDAY {Co\.) MysteryDrama. Principals: Pat O'Brien, Ruth Warrick, Alan Hale, Audrey Long. Director, Edward H. Griffith. Plot: A secret agent, in Mexico on a mysterious mission, is assigned to get information from an American woman columnist, with whom he promptly falls in love. He also meets a blonde manhunterfrom the States, and she causes trouble between them. The three of them are trapped by a gang of counterfeiters, but the police arrive in time to round up the entire gang and free the trio of Americans. FAITHFUL IN MY FASHION (MGM) Comedy-Drama. Principals: Donna Reed, Tom Drake, Edward Everett Horton. Director, Sidney Salkow. Plot: Returning after five years of war, an ex-sergeant seeks out his girl ,a clerk in a department store. She hasn't the heart to tell him that she is now head buyer for the department, and engaged to the man who is head of accounting. With the help of four kind, elderly clerks, she tries to conceal her promotion and engagement for the two weeks of his furlough. During this time, she truly falls in love with him and breaks her engagement to the other man. When the Sergeant learns the truth, he refuses to believe she loves him, but the four old conspirators come to the rescue and smooth everything out for them. ME AND MR. SATAN (UA) Drama. Principals: Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter. Director, Archie Mayo. Plot: Story of the strange adventures of one of the toughest gangsters in the world who, with the Devil as his partner, breaks loose from Satan's dominion and creates a maelstrom of disorder around the lives of a judge and his sweetheart on earth. He matches wits with the brains of the underworld and with Old Nick, at the same time coping with the entanglements of romance. STEP BY STEP (RKO) Mystery-Drama. Principals: Lawrence Tiernej-, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore, Myrna Dell. Director, Phil Rosen. Plot: A recently discharged Marine's interest in a Senator's pretty secretary involves him in the efforts of a Nazi gang to destroy a list of their postwar agents. A federal man is murdered by the Nazis and the ex-AIarine and the secretary are suspected. After some hectic adventures, they clear themselves, help trap the Nais and recover the list. THE JOLSON STORY (Col.) Technicolor, Drama-with-Music. Principals: Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest. Director, Alfred E. Green. Plot: The rise of Al Jolson to stardom covers years of alternating success and disappointment. This story begins when, at the age of twelve. Jolson runs away from home to join a show, follows him to sensational successes on Broadway, and eventually an offer from the movies and screen stardom. TILL THE END OF TIME (RKO) Drama. F*rincipals: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Bob Mitchum, Bill Williams. Jean Porter. Director, Edward Dmytryk. Plot: A handsome Marine and his ex-cowboy buddy receive their honorable discharges and return to a home they now don't understand. The Marine is consoled by a lovely widow who has some problems of her own. The three are happy only when they realize that dreams of escape can't help them — they must slowly adjust themselves to a routine, normal life. HOLIDAY IN MEXICO (MGM) Technicolor, Drama-with-Music. Principals: Walter Pidgeon. Ilona Massey, Jane Powell, Jose Iturbi, Roddy McDowall, Director, George Sidney. Plot: In Mexican diplomatic circles, the American Ambassador is wooing a fa mous singer, and the teen-age son of the English Ambassador has a school-boy crush on the American's fifteen-year old daughter who, in turn, is chasing a musician. The men cook up a scheme to cure the young girl of her infatuation for the older man, and it all works out happily for everyone. BADMAN S TERRITORY (RKO) Drama. Principals: Randolph Scotf, Ann Richards, Lawrence Tierney, Isabel Jewell. Director, Tim Whelan. Plot: In attempting to capture the James gang, an honest sheriff and his young brother incur the hatred of a ruthless state officer. They follow the gang to Badman's Territory where the sheriff falls in love with a pretty newspaper editor whom the state officer almost turns against him. .A.fter his 3'oung brother dies with the Daltons in a bank robbery, the sheriff kills the ruthless officer, which convinces the girl of his honesty. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK ( UA ) Comedy. Principals: Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Rayn:iond Walburn, Rudy Vallee. Director, Preston Sturges. Plot: After being fired from his job, a bookkeeper takes his life's savings and goes on a spree. When he wakes up he discovers he has bought a circus, which he decides to sell to a bank. Taking one of the lions with him, he goes on a selling tour. The lion escapes in the office of a bank president, there is a great deal of commotion before he is captured, and our hero lands in jail. Ringling Bros, buy the circus, the man gets his job back, and learns that during his 24-hour spree he found enough courage to marry the girl to whom he was engaged. NOTORIOUS (RKO) Drama. Principals: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Director, Alfred Hitchock. Pot: Bitter over her father's prison sentence for Nazi espionage, a German girl in America turns to a fast life as an escape from her unhappiness. She is constantly watched by police, especially by a government agent who falls in love with her. She proves her basic loyalty by accompanj'ing hiin to South America and almost sacrificing h'er life in the capture of a dangerous group of Germans. This accomplished, she marries the agent, although the world still looks on her as the daughter of a notorious spy. SHAHRAZAD (Univ.) Color. Principals: Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean Pierre Aumont. Director, Walter Reisch. Plot: Homeward bound from a tour, the Russian Naval training ship Almaz is becalmed in a Moroccan port. The Captain gives the men shore leave and Midshipmen Rimsky Korsakov hurries to find a piano to try out the opera he wrote during the voyage. He meets a dancer, they fall in love and she inspires liim to compose more music during the week in port. With the Almaz ready to sail, the men smuggle the girl aboard. She is discovered and put ashore, but later gets to Moscow and joins the ballet. WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (RKO) Comedy. Principals: Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore. Director, Mervyn LeRoy. Plot: Enroute to Hollywood for the filming of her novel, a famous authoress meets two Marines, a captain and a lieutenant. In a conversation with them, it appears that they have a poor opinion of her best-seller so she forgets to tell them who she is. By the time they reach Albuquerque, she and the captain are in love; however, when he discovers her identity, he leaves her and she finishes the journey alone. When he suddenh' turns up later in Hollywood, all is forgiven. BUT NOT GOODBYE (MGM) ComedyDrama. Principals: Frank A^organ, Keenan Wynn, .Vudrey Totter. Director, S. Sylvan Simon. Plot: When an old ship-builder dies, he leaves his family in a financial mess because he rashly invested the family fortune in a real estate venture. The spirit of his own father is waiting to take him to his reward, but he begs to remain on earth in spirit until he can correct the mistakes he made. When his son and daughter are happily settled, and the money from the real estate is turned over to ills wife, he leaves with a clear conscience. FIESTA (MGM) Color. Principals: Esther Williams, John Carroll, Ricardo Montbalban, Mary Astor. Director, Richard Thorpe. Plot: A famous Matador rejoices over the birth of twins, a son and daughter. The boy is schooled in bull-fighting during his childhood but it is apparent that the girl has inherited their father's love for the bullring, and the son takes after his mother, a musician. While he secretly studies music, his sister often takes his place in the ring, unknown to the father. After a fight in which her identity is revealed, the father realizes it is better for the boy to follow his musical career and forget about being a great matador. BIG TOWN (Para.) Drama. Principals: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Veda Ann Eorg. Director, William Thomas. Plot: Steve Wilson goes to Big Town to take charge of the Illustrated Press. While changing the newspaper from an old-fashioned publication to a smart modern paper, Steve and newspaperwoman Lorelei become interested in each other. Through stories, an innocent man is accused of murder and kills himself before the real murderer is captured. At the end, Steve uses the power of the press to clean up Big Town instead of hurting defenseless people. TIME FOR TWO (MGM) Comedy-Drama. Principals: John Hodiak, Lucille Ball, Lloyd Nolan. Director, Jules Dassin. Plot: Having just availed himself of half a million dollars in gilt-edged certificates, a handsome young swindler is chagrined to learn that a New York detective has arrived to take him back to face trial. To add to his troubles, a tinhorn gunman and a lovely redhead declare themselves in on the money and accompany liim on the cross-country railroad trio to get their share of the loot. Before they reach New York, he and the girl are in love but they must say goodbye, as they are both taken to jail for individual swindling jobs. YOUNG WIDOW (UA) Drama. Principals: Jane Russell, Louis Hayward. Kent Taylor, Marie Wilson. Director, William Dieterle. Plot: Widowed when her husband was killed over Berlin, a young woman finds difficulty in adjusting her life without him, and is reluctant to accept companionship from a lieutenant who is in love with her. When she resumes her old job as reporter on a newspaper, she begins to take a renewed interest in life and, upon learning that the lieutenant is Tokyo-bound, she rushes to the field to tell him she will wait for him. He is already gone, but she knows he will return. NO LEAVE, NO LOVE (MGM) ComedyDrama. Principals: Van Johnson, Pat Kirkwood, Keenan Wynn, Marie Wilson. Director, Charles Martin. Plot: After two years in the Pacific, a Marine stops over in New York on his way home to Indiana and the girl he left behind. He and his pal attend a radio broadcast where his friend wins a phone call to the home folks, and learns that the Marine's girl has married someone else. The beautiful young singer on the show conspires with his pal to keep the news from him. After many complications, the Marine realizes it is the singer he really loves and he asks her to marry him with a million radio listeners in on the proposal. Gulistan Wilton Theatre Carpet JOE HORNSTEIN has it!