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...several easy-hearted songs, some lines as quietly wicked as an icepick stab, and a few fine jokes. Good joke: at one point, Hope enthusiastically explains the rest of the picture: they'll Get-The-Papers and Stop-the-Marriage; "Boy, what a finish!" There is a frightful offscreen growling that sounds like a couple of nauseated tigers. Crosby, disconcerted: "What was that?" Hope, casually: "Oh, just the Warner Brothers; they're terribly jealous...
...Havoc (M.G.M.) has lost its most blood-chilling cries-the offscreen screams of the U.S. nurses on Bataan surrendering to the Japanese, which were a high point of the stage play. The cryless Cry Havoc is a less sensational So Proudly We Hail (TIME, Sept. 27). It is harsher and more perfervid than Paramount's star-struck version of nurses on Bataan...
...Green is almost a photographed novel, is very nearly a silent picture with occasional dialogue sequences. Director John Ford has chosen the book's method to tell his story: his reminiscing Welshman is an offscreen voice (Rhys Williams) introducing and commenting on the picture's episodes.* For the most part, the actors are silent as befits inarticulate people...
Indoor Girl. Although Rita's hair has turned, her head hasn't. As the modern exponent of old-school showfolk, she merely follows a new line of a traditional family business. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar. Her family were always "clever show people," Rita is no exception...
...same theme, and although Robert Montgomery makes no effort to control his cuteness, Hide-Out is a likable little picture, full of sweetness, sincerity and scenes which should delight the Legion of Decency. Cleanest shot : Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan milking a cow whose udder is offscreen...