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Died. Herbert Stothart, 64, top-ranking composer of M-G-M cinemusical scores (Rose Marie, May time); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A onetime collaborator with Franz Lehar, Rudolph Friml and George Gershwin, Stothart won the 1939 Academy Award for his sprightly, hard-to-forget score for The Wizard...
...Three Godfathers (Argosy; M-G-M), made by independent producers, is the work of such talented people as Director John Ford (The Informer, The Long Voyage Home), Producer Merian C. Cooper (The Long Voyage Home, Fort Apache) and Scripters Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory) and Frank S. Nugent (Fort Apache). The finished product gives the viewer the kind of shock he might get from seeing all the Flying Wallendas fall off the high wire at once. Godfathers is close to being an unintentional parody on the old-fashioned western...
...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...
...Violence (M-G-M), a realistic, tight-knit study in fear, hatred and revenge, is a well-made movie melodrama. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman, who gets as much power out of his lens as if it were a fire-hose nozzle, deals this time with a deadly game of hide & seek. The fugitive is an ex-bomber pilot (Van Heflin) who once betrayed a group of fellow prisoners to curry favor and food in a Ger man prison camp. Stalking him with a maniacal single-mindedness is Bombardier Robert Ryan, the only survivor...
...University Theater. Back before the lush wartime days, the U.T. used to make some effort to cater to the tastes of college audiences, particularly in its Wednesday Review Day programs. Now Review Day itself has been all but abandoned, and its few recent appearances have mostly featured faded M-G-M moronities like "Cass Timberlane" instead of such films as "The Informer...