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Northwest Passage (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a grim reminder to pale faces with an atavistic itch to bag an Indian that potting "those red hellions up there" is all work and no play. So Rogers' Rangers (a band of buckskinned vigilantes) find out when (circa 1759) they put themselves in Spencer Tracy's calloused hands, shove off with him and Captain Ogden (Truman Bradley) in whaleboats for a little massacre of the Abenaki Indians...
Broadway Melody of 1940 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). An uplifting little tale of backstage unselfishness among the hoofers is mounted with the same gorgeousness, but minus the bounce of Broadway-Melodies of 1936 and 1938. This year emphasis on the male lead has been shifted from glamor (Robert Taylor) to talent (Fred Astaire). With George Murphy and Eleanor Powell (survivor of the two previous Melodies), Astaire taps his way through a half-dozen nimble numbers, including Begin the Beguine, some more recent, less inspired Cole Porter tunes. Frank Morgan chases ungrateful files de joie, who try to make off with...
...Take This Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This Hollywood Hedy-ache began as a laudable endeavor to bring glamorous Miss Lamarr and her palpitant public face to face again. The first shooting was generally conceded to be so awful that after investing $900,000, the studio temporarily pushed it far back on the shelf while Spencer Tracy made Stanley and Livingstone, producers made changes in the cast, the direction, the Charles MacArthur script. Face-saving retakes cost some $500,000. Result: an entertainment hangover throbbing with the self-evident truism that Hedy Lamarr is quite an eyeful...
...matinee) to $2.20 (Manhattan's Astor), it had toppled house records almost everywhere. Produced for $3,850,000, it was expected to gross up to $20,000,000 in a year and a half (with foreign distribution). That would make a handsome profit for Distributor (and part owner) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Producer David Selznick (Selznick International), who split a reputed 70% of the box-office gross. And since the book on which it was based was the fastest selling U. S. novel, it would also copper-rivet GWTW as the all-time hard-cash classic...
...Earl of Chicago (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For years Robert Montgomery made out very handsomely as a Hollywood type. To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford. But all the while Robert Montgomery wanted to be a gangster. Much against its better judgment his studio at last let him play a sneering homicidal bellhop in Night Must Fall. Cinemactor Montgomery had a high old time murdering Dame May Whitty, and critics thought it was pretty good too. But the U. S. cinemasses, who can spot a phony...