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Shadow in the Sky (M-G-M), based on a New Yorker short story by Edward Newhouse, finds ex-Marine Ralph Meeker committed to a veterans' hospital because of his morbid tendency to hide under tables whenever it rains. When he is finally pronounced well enough to move in with his sister and brother-in-law (Nancy Davis and James Whitmore), they at first hesitate to bring him into close contact with their two children. But eventually they give in to the urgings of conscience embodied in Jean Hagen, a whimsical young woman who has met Meeker...
Oogie Oogie Wa Wa (Debbie Reynolds; M-G-M). According to Tin Pan Alley linguists, the title is Eskimo for "I want a mama." A fast-tempo piece of foolishness, well sung...
Lena Home Sings (M-G-M). Eight sides (Can't Help Lovin' That Man, Where or When, 'Deed I Do, I've Got the World on a String, Is It Always like This, The Lady Is a Tramp, Love of My Life, Sometimes I'm Happy), some from movie sound tracks, all delivered in Songstress Home's customary buttery style...
Invitation (M-G-M), based on a story by Jerome Weidman, bears an astonishing resemblance to Henry James's chilling classic, The Wings of the Dove. Like James's Milly, Dorothy McGuire is a poor little rich girl doomed to an early death from an incurable heart ailment, and her plight provides an opportunity for a pair of fortune hunters. When the film opens, Dorothy-unaware that she has only a few months to live-is being showered with expensive gifts by her grieving father, Louis Calhern, and with little attentions by her husband, Van Johnson...
...Vadis" is colossal, all right; it's a colossal bore. M-G-M assembled a couple of dozen amiable lions, lots of chariots and other Roman go-carts, 30,000 guys in bed-sheets, and a balsa wood city, but they never did anything with the happy throng...