LIGHT ON THE MOVIES
Hamilton, James S.
Light on the movies James S. Hamilton A Handy Guide To The Best Current Films A Medal for Benny.—A tragi comedy by John Steinbeck about the exploitation of war heroes, laid among the paisa-nos of...
...Family) Junior Miss — Always amusing, often touching, home comedy, about the excitements of having lively young teenage daughters in the family...
...Family) Dillinger—A fairly factual case history of the once notorious Public Enemy...
...Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple lead an all-round good cast...
...Mature) Counter...
...Played expertly for excitement, tension, and human interest...
...Family...
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...Peggy Ann Garner (the top child star of the day) heads an excellent cast...
...Full of humor, good nature, and contemporary color, but overlong...
...Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe—Gay and gaudy musical that is a fine ad for Mr...
...Light on the movies James S. Hamilton A Handy Guide To The Best Current Films A Medal for Benny.—A tragi comedy by John Steinbeck about the exploitation of war heroes, laid among the paisa-nos of southern California...
...J. Carroll Naish is the real star of a touching and significant story, surprisingly well assisted by Dorothy Lamour...
...Aside from the simplified psychological aspects, no one is likely to care much...
...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...
...Family) It's In the Bag—A completely Fred Allen show with all his characteristic quirks and comicalities...
...Family) Out of This World—Eddie Bracken (with Bing Crosby's voice), Diana Lynn, and Veronica Lake in a thinnish comedy lavishly dressed up with girls, songs, and big-band music...
...Tension and the obvious moral characterize it, with a grim performance by Lawrence Tierney...
...The star is generously aided by other big names in small parts...
...Family) A Royal Scandal—Handsome comedy of Catherine of Russia and one of her minor amours, spun out too long, with Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn in grand comic vein...
...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...
...Rose's night club...
...Betty Grable in lavish form, assisted by Dick Haynes, William Gaxton and Beatrice Kay...
...Attack—Paul Muni as a Russian paratrooper buried in a cellar with a variegated lot of Germans who are his prisoners...
...Mature) I'll Be Seeing You—A war-shocked soldier's readjustment to civilian life, warmly and sympathetically presented...
...Conflict—Humphrey Bogart as a wife-murderer who is caught by the psychiatric trap of Sidney Greenstreet...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 29
