LIGHT ON THE MOVIES
Hamilton, James S.
A Handy Guide To Current Films A Tree Grows in Brooklyn—A fine and sensitive dramatization of a generous section of the popular novel, with outstanding acting all around and superb direction....
...National Velvet—A warm and enjoyable story of an English family and how an enchanting little girl's dream of winning the big steeplechase came true without hurting her common sense...
...Meet Me in St...
...The Guest in the House—The dire results of a happy family's kindness to a deceptively sweet neurotic...
...Errol Flynn submerges himself in a uniformly good cast in one of Hollywood's best war films...
...Unusually effective musical score...
...Family...
...Family...
...Louis—Gay and hearty memories of not so long ago, excellent in songs and sentiment and remarkable in little Margaret O'Brien...
...Music For Millions—With Margaret O'Brien mothering her big sister for heart interest, Jimmy Durante and Hugh Herbert for laughs, and Jose Iturbi and a fine orchestra for excellent music, this is an all-round good show...
...None But the Lonely Heart—Sincere and poignant insight into the lives of the London poor, with a superlative cast headed by Ethel Barrymore and Cary Grant (Mature...
...Objective Burma — An American para troop mission against the Japs, with remarkably good factual detaiirafi, no romantics...
...Family...
...Theatrical but effective, and Anne Baxter stands out in a generally excellent production...
...Mature...
...Family...
...Mature...
...Family...
...Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, and Anne Revere (a new and refreshing movie mother...
...Hangover Square—Gas-lit melodrama with Laird Cregar as a Jekyl-Hyde composer with a murder compulsion...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 14
