Word: rko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Argosy Pictures; RKO Radio). Ten years ago Director John Ford made Stagecoach, a rattling good western. His new picture is no Stagecoach...
...Scott; "Jolson Sings Again" at the Low's Orpheum, Larry Parks as He; "Come to the Stable" at Loew's Publix, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young as Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street near the Park Street subway station...
...Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney; RKO Radio) is an uneven doubleheader by Walt Disney, who has combined into one film two dissimilar literary classics: Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The contrast in the handling of the two unrelated stories neatly illustrates some of Disney's outstanding vices & virtues...
...equanimity, which remains undisturbed until his path is crossed by the inevitable woman--the coquette Katrina. From then until his encounter with the Headless Horseman, he floats about on the screen in a transport of joy. As for the Horseman, he scared the pants off the kids at the RKO-Keith. More mature moviegoers will have no trouble in this respect...