LIGHT ON THE MOVIES
Hamilton, James S.
Light on the movie James S. Hamilton God Is My Co-Pilot—In his book Col. Robert Scott put God in the title and left Him there, perhaps content with that much to imply all he wanted to say about...
...A warm and exe't-ing film of international dependence and good-w'll was sacrificed for just another adventure story, and neither Dennis Morgan nor Raymond Massey put much vigor into it...
...Family) * * * A Handy Guide To The Best Current Films A Royal Scandal—Handsome comedy of Catherine of Russia and one of her minor amours, spun out too lonsr, with Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn in grand comic vein...
...Mature...
...Louis—Gay and hearty memories of not so long ago, excellent in songs and sentiment and remarkable in little Margaret O'Brien...
...In the end, grounded for age and medical reasons, the Colonel is vouchsafed one more flight in a brand-new plane as if in answer to prayer...
...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...
...Full of humor, good nature, and contemporary color, but overlong...
...Scott's own record, even by remote sur;-gestion, and though a pious idea it is neither convincing nor edifying...
...Family...
...Robert Scott put God in the title and left Him there, perhaps content with that much to imply all he wanted to say about whatever inexpressible sense, even assurance, he bad that he was not all alone in his long sky-flights over seas and mountains in his plane...
...Family), Colonel Blimp—Handsome and entertaining coverage of the changes made by the years from the Boer War to the present in an English soldier-sportsman...
...The Belle of the Yukon — Gypsy Rose Lee in a ladyjike mood and Dinah Shore with songs in a take-off on Westerns...
...None of this is in Col...
...Family...
...Family...
...Hotel Berlin—Hasty melodrama of panicky Nazis dodging bombs and retribution...
...The Affairs of Susan—Glittering and improbable adventures, marital and nearly so, of Joan Fontaine and fouri men...
...Fairly frisky...
...Mature...
...Family...
...Meet Me in St...
...Most of the spirit of Chennault's Flying Tigers is allowed, to evaporate, and all the fascinating staff about Americans and Chinese working and fitfhtuitc together is tossed aside, leaving conventional a"r-fights with Japs for the high spots...
...Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, and Ar.ne Revere (a new and refreshing movie mother...
...Otherwise the film is a routine affair of war adventure...
...The movie invents what is practically a story of conversion to give point to the same title, making the Colonel, from boyhood on, a cocksure person strictly on his own in spite of constant preachments from an Uncle-Tom darky and a missionary priest (both also invented) that man does not fly without help from above...
...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 h r common sense...
...Family...
Vol. 9 • May 1945 • No. 19
