LIGHT ON THE MOVIES
Hamilton, James S.
Light on the Movies James S. Hamilton Nob Hill—The ancient tale of the man from acros3 the tracks lured from his early love by the lovely society lady, only to learn that pure hearts are more than...
...George Raft is the gent in the case—old enough, one would think, to know better—owner of the biggest and flashiest saloon in San Francisco...
...Peggy Ann Garner is mixed up in it as a small colleen from the old sod, rather ill at ease in an uncertain brogue and a phoney part, but the realest thing in the whole affair...
...Joan Bennett the impetuous beauty who mixes slumming, politics and love into a deceptive brew that almost knocks him out...
...Light on the Movies James S. Hamilton Nob Hill—The ancient tale of the man from acros3 the tracks lured from his early love by the lovely society lady, only to learn that pure hearts are more than shiny shirt-fronts and the glitter of Nob Hill not the gold of the Barbary Coast...
...Family...
...and Vivian Blaine the cabaret lassie in tights, pure but primitive, who does all the singing and most of the suffering...
...Virtue, even in the most unexpected quarters, is stalwart and dominant in this picture of a bawdy and garish period, which is given color and liveliness by high-powered Technicolor and a lot of singing, dancing, and legs...
Vol. 9 • August 1945 • No. 33
