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...Marjorie Reynolds Holiday Inn is a plugger's triumph. Before dancing with Astaire, singing with Crosby, she made about 70 pictures-from a moppet role (age six) in Scaramouche to college musicals, Boris Karloff thrillers, scores of Monogram and Universal Westerns and cliffhangers. Thrown in as a last-minute stopgap for a heroineless Holiday Inn, she recalled enough of her former ballet training, enough of her singing voice to get by. Blonde Miss Reynolds (real name: Marjorie Goodspeed) adds a Wild-West charm to the picture...
...pictures. Saboteurs and spies, old barns and Long Island villas, unbreakable codes and secret inks all play their usual part in this drama of intrigue. But in adding to these the skillful directing of Tim Whelan and the international atmosphere engendered by Ilona Massey as a Scandinavian singer, Boris Karloff as a Sherlock from the "Yard," and George Brent as an ex-All-American calling signals for the F.B.I., Hollywood has produced a show which proves that the capable handling of an old line can still provide an enjoyable evening. Done with skill and a restraint which forbids long-winded...
Just about gone are the days of Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and their good old-fashioned horror pictures. Occasionally one of them crops up again with a week-kneed off-shoot of Frankenstein, but every effort fails to recapture the mood. Originally, Stevenson's "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" was one of the standout pictures of this melodramatic school; in today's guise, it is merely another problem in psychology...
...heavily pro-isolationist investigating committee is, however, fast becoming the Boris Karloff rather then the Harpo Marx of the show in question. The investigation has rumbled along on an anti-British, anti-Semitic, anti-foreign-born campaign, stopping along the way to take a few digs at both the President and Mr. Willkie. The thoroughness with which the committee sought to avoid the truth was typified by Senator Nye's admission that most of the members of the committee had seen none of the movies that they alleged were pushing the United States to the brink...
...Hills, N.Y. For Bridegroom Budge, practically invincible during two years of professional barnstorming, it was the second defeat in two weeks. On closing day, the gallery was treated to a doubles match, billed as "Brains v. Terror," featuring Information Please's Franklin P. Adams & John Kieran v. Boris Karloff & Deems Taylor, with Clifton Fadiman in the umpire's chair. Brains won, 6-4 (one set was enough...