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Superbly filmed (in Technicolor) by Vienna-born Director Fritz Lang, Western Union has the same swift pace and scenic beauty that distinguished John Ford's Stagecoach two years ago. The players are uniformly ingratiating-including Robert Young as a brash young tenderfoot from Harvard who finally avenges Vance's death. But acting honors go to lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Randy Scott, who in Western Union plays his 18th Zane Grey character, looks more than ever like a 1941 Bill Hart. Virginia-born, educated at swank Woodberry Forest School and the University of North Carolina, Actor Scott...
...Little Moltlce." Life for "Little John" Metaxas had more ups & downs than a scenic railway. At the Potsdam Military Academy (Germany's West Point), where he wore high heels to increase his height, his brilliance in solving strategy problems earned him the nickname "Little Moltke." From school he plunged into that prelude of World War I, the Balkan War. When war exploded throughout Europe two years later, he supported the pro-German faction in Greece so vehemently that when Greece finally chose her side, he was escorted aboard a seedy freighter and carried to Corsica as prisoner...
...tackling So Ends Our Night, Producers Loew & Lewin evidently tossed a large part of their Hollywood experience out the window, turned to European studios for guidance. It has the pace and scenic variety of a British thriller (The 39 Steps, Night Train}, some of the photographic intensity of pre-war French and German films. Unlike many previous U. S. anti-dictator films, it has maturity as well as indignation...
...nevertheless takes much more than heightened scenic effect to give a play dramatic power. During most of two acts of Flight to the West it is a series of recitations rather than drama. The sentiments are those ubiquitous in anti-Nazi journalism...
...Chicago Reaper Scion McCormick, one of many non-Okie notables "bogged down" in scenic, climatic New Mexico (TIME, Oct. 28), thanks for another appraisal...