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...evening's program, and, strangely enough, it isn't bad at all. Called "Blind Spot" and featuring Chester Morris, it is a psychological murder mystery of unusual quality, at least for the B-picture category. Although the villain's identity is hardly much of a secret after the first reel, dialogue, direction, and photography must place "Blind Spot" far, far above the great majority of its class--better, perhaps, than a good number that pass as first-run productions in these lean times...
...Cinemactor Ronald Reagan gave from the heart in introducing a reel of excerpts from Oscar-winning films of yesteryear: "This film embodies the glories of our past, the memories of our present and the inspiration for our future." When the film came on, it was running backwards...
...welter of ominous looking crooks, one of whom inevitably turns out to be Peter Lorre. Tossing gags to the winds, Hope spends the greater part of the picture chasing Dorothy Lamour, who plays a foreign baroness of some kind, though she seems to lose her accent after the first reel. Action, consisting mainly of knife-throwings and wisecracks, moves from California mansion to insane asylum to Washington hotel to San Quentin Prison, as the two principals frantically pursue a little map locating a fabulous deposit of uranium ore, a substance which seems to have supplanted buried treasure in the cinema...
After Dolly's tribulations, the nation's problems rank first, and if James Madison discusses politics, it's only to create an impression that will lead to a clinch. Expressing doubts and fears for the nation's future. Meredith rushes into Miss Rogers' ample embrace, asserting reel after reel that you just can't mix business with pleasure...
...Mutt & Jeff or Polly and Her Pals. But the Chicago Tribune's prize old political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...