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...Valley of Decision (MGM), Marcia Davenport's highly colored best seller about steel and several generations of steelmen and their women and chil dren, would have been no easy job to adapt for the screen, at best. In choosing too often the better part of valor, MGM has permitted too little of the imaginable best to survive. It was probably discreet to reduce Mrs. Davenport's 790-page chronicle to a few years and a few major episodes, but they move with little essential vitality, at a wedding-march pace...
...work is not all satisfactory. On the one hand Miss Garson sometimes depends too heavily on the limited charms of a brogue, a bustle and a charade-like servant's toddle; on the other, as if by weary obligation, she sometimes lets her face become MGM's official Etruscan mask. Between these hazards, however, she walks a wide and pleasant road, with evident delight and considerable power to communicate it. Some of her love scenes, especially, are worthy of a much better film...
Like so many pictures, "Experiment Perilous" goes off the deep end in its last few hundred feet: hero George Brent (it was Joseph Cotton in MGM's "Gaslight) walks into a cloud-filled sky through a field of daisies with pretty Hedy coming too. This little anti-climax is preceded by a good deal of suspense, but it was better the first time...
...American Romance (MGM) is a $3,000,000,151-minute, Technicolor "epic" of the U.S'. steel industry. Producer-Director King Vidor, one of Hollywood's abler craftsmen (The Big Parade, H.M. Pulham, Esq.) and most earnest innovators (Hallelujah, Our Daily Bread), took fire 18 years ago with the idea of filming a U.S. history in terms of steel. He eventually ignited Louis B. Mayer, too. But the resulting conflagration is a one-alarm blaze, at best...
...Kismet (MGM) is the old romance, made famous by the late Otis Skinner, dressed up in some of the finest Technicolor yet filmed...