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Guess Who I Am (backed.by Guess What I Am) makes a pleasant children's game out of identification of animals, is sung by the Melodeons. Another good record in "Uncle Leo's Records for Young Folks" series (MGM) is Frosty the Snow Man (backed by Isn't It a Shame that Christmas Comes but Once a Year), done to a turn by carborundum-voiced Jimmy Durante...
Callaway Went Thataway (MGM] cheerfully spoofs a national institution-the oldtime movie cowboy, exhumed by TV, exalted on boxtops and enriched by millions of worshiping, gun-toting little fans. In fairness to Hopalong Cassidy, who dispatched deputies to a Hollywood screening to see if M-G-M had poisoned his waterhole, the studio adds a postscript to the film: "This picture was made in the spirit of fun and was meant in no way to detract from the wholesome influence, civic-mindedness and the many charitable contributions of Western idols of our American youth...
...Light Touch (MGM) opens with a deft lesson in the art of stealing an old master's painting from a crowded Italian museum. A self-contained little thriller, from the planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also pegs the film's picaresque hero without a wasted motion. Stewart Granger is the Raffles of art-clever, nonchalant, cynically aware that the painting is on loan from a church altar, so thoroughgoing a rascal that he not only carries on an affair with his henchman's wife...
...Young to Kiss (MGM) starts inauspiciously by presenting Van Johnson as the stereotype of a famed concert impresario who reigns, suave and multilingual, over plush offices swarming with international artistes. But this bobby-soxer's S. Hurok quickly becomes the butt of a pleasant little comedy by the scripting team (Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett) of Father of the Bride...
Across the Wide Missouri (MGM) boasts all the expansive paraphernalia of a painstaking Hollywood epic: vast stretches of the rugged Colorado outdoors, superbly photographed in Technicolor; a conscientious effort to show how trappers actually looked and lived in the Western wilderness of 1830; a big cast headed by Clark Gable in one of his manliest roles. Unfortunately, all the color and muscle is not enough to hide the script's severe case of dramatic anemia...