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Paramount's Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...
...Bahama Passage" is a rough trip at best. We understand Stirling Hayden recently resigned from the movies. This picture explains why. It isn't just that he can't act; Hollywood is filled with handsome fellows who drag down nice salaries despite that minor disability. Hayden, in addition, has a voice like a fog-horn and--what's worse--is so pretty he detracts from the allure of Madeleine Carroll, who is growing kind of fat herself. The story involves a colony of Negroes living on a subtropical island who, we couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist...
...some reason, probably because it's in technicolor, "Bahama Passage" is billed above "Unholy Partners" in a dreary show at the U.T. Actually, both features can take a back seat to Donald Duck. Not only does the short present Donald in his customary good form, it proves in a fast ten minutes that Hollywood can propagandize for defense without the usual conglomeration of platitudes and bathing-beauties...
...virile torsos. In the end, of course, Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Caribbean blue. The only good things about the picture are madeleine Carroll and the Glorious Technicolor. An actress as charming and demure as Miss Carroll was certainly meant for better things than "Bahama Passage...
...about a girl (Ellen Drew) who comes dangerously near being convicted of a murder which, needless to say, she didn't commit. Robert Preston, who manages to clear her of the charge, is his usual dashing self. Included in the plot are many amusing situations, and the picture, unlike "Bahama Passage," moves along at a good rate. On the whole, it's by far the better...