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This is not because "Arsenic and Old Lace" is a chiller-thriller where women scream faint; the wear and tear on one's constitution all occurs around you, laughing apparatus, and if you faint it's because you can't take the belly-agitation. Wliat Joseph Kesserling has written from a God-sent (or Perhaps Ghoul-sent) inspiration and how a perfect cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve...
...Radioman Cooper wrote and directed the silo-of-blood programs called Lights Out. Late at night, so children couldn't hear them and have their little livers scared out of them, they gushed from Chicago's WMAQ and were beyond doubt the most goose-fleshing chiller-dillers in air history. At each broadcast's opening a deep, dark, dank voice would instruct listeners to put their lights out and settle back in their chairs, whereupon gore would commence to flow, bones to snap, screams and groans to rowel...
Filmed by special motion picture photographers in the German army, the movie shows Nazi infantry, tanks, guns and planes smashing all resistance in their blitz conquest of Holland, France, and Belgium. "Blitzkrieg Im Westen" is the sequel to the first spine-chiller, "Baptism of Fire," which came out soon after the invasion of Poland...
...Canary (Paramount). This old chiller-diller, which has as many lives as a cat, haunted Broadway for a long run, has twice before been made into a movie. Paramount has brushed off some of the cobwebs, draped some bigger, stickier ones for harassed Heroine Paulette Goddard to paw through in the secret passageways, added some new wisecracks...