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...Most readers will have a hard time finding any appreciable difference between the new Bright Day and such earlier efforts as The Good Companions and Angel Pavement. Changeless Author Priestley is still his typically British 'arf-an'-'arf self -half an able, warmhearted craftsman whose values rest on beef and decency, half a left-of-center propagandist, who views bureaucratic Laborites and heartless boosters of free enterprise with the same beady...
...Angel in Disguise. Now Leahy has Johnny Lujack. This veteran of 36 months in the Navy is a brown-eyed, brown-haired, Polish 21-year-old who never has much to say. As T-formation quarterback he does no running (although he used to be a left halfback); he keeps busy thinking, punting, passing and doing much of the tackling...
Lujack, who will be hard to keep off anybody's All-America team, rates about as high in the temporal world as "Top-litzky" rates in the spiritual. In a new musical soon to open on Broadway, Top-litzky is the angel who comes down from heaven disguised as a quarterback and charged with the sacred mission of helping Notre Dame beat Army...
...Cockeyed Miracle (MGM) and Angel on My Shoulder (Charles R. Rogers-United Artists) illustrate Hollywood's rather alarming drift-which may become an out-&-out trend-toward fantasy. Both pictures are lighthearted efforts to examine, with trick camera work, some of the problems of life-after-death...
...Angel on My Shoulder presents Paul Muni as a murdered gangster and Claude Rains as the Devil. Aiming at satire with a touch of uplift, the picture succeeds in being vaguely grisly and definitely foolish. Actor Muni's natural dignity, which prevents him from appearing ridiculous in embarrassing surroundings, is all that saves the movie from disaster...