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...Girl Was Young (Gaumont British). Cinema's top man for melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations...
...Wife of General Ling (Gaumont British), as a timely reminder that the sun never sets on the British accent, lay, its scene in British Crown Colony Hon -Kong. There it huffs & puffs until it blows down the house of double-dealing Genera1 Ling. Most imperial gesture: Actor Alan Napier, as the film's aptly named Governor Buckram, stepping out unarmed before a nasty-looking horde of Chinese bandits, demanding and getting their supine surrender...
...Stop New York (Gaumont British) shows what the transatlantic airliner of the apparently near future may be like. "A" deck will have spacious cabins with wardrobes big enough for blonde stowaways like Anna Lee to hide in, "hurricane" decks from which trapped villains may escape, providing scissor-minded child prodigies like Desmond Tester have not been tampering with the parachutes. In the "B" deck dining salon gourmets from Scotland Yard (like John Loder) may have their Martinis mixed, not shaken, and may pick at turbot after having had a try at some clear soup, probably terrapin. The fare will...
...Gaumont-British). To millions for whom the cinema is history's picture book, great figures like Alexander Hamilton, Disraeli, Voltaire, Rothschild. Richelieu et al. share one marked characteristic-an extraordinary resemblance to Actor George Arliss. Once even God looked something like him (The Man Who Played God). But whatever else he is supposed to represent, Actor Arliss is always his own suave self. He was never more so than in Dr. Syn. In the dual roles of an 18th century pirate and the kindly vicar of Dymchurch-under-the-wall, 69-year-old Actor Arliss takes a well-deserved...
...Gangway (Gaumont-British) is the third British musical in little more than a year to tackle the task of making Jessie Matthews as popular in the U. S. as she is in England. A slavish imitation of the current Hollywood musical comedy formula, Gangway sometimes comes close to clicking, gives one more indication that British cinema can as yet boast few native screen writers within trailing distance of Hollywood's best, but that British producers are still trying to pick up the trail...