Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cowboys, Indians, soldiers and lots of noisy gunpowder--a throw-back to the days when Tom Mix, Ken Maynard and Buck Jones used to hold the Saturday matinee spellbound. Remember the thrill when troops of soldiers thundered across the screen leaving their loved ones and a trail of dust behind them. And the Indians--how vicious they looked in their war paint, and how quiet they were in sneaking up on an encampment of sleeping men. But what a grand lot of noise there was when battle took place! Those were the days...
...Between Two Worlds (Warner), ready for release, is the second screen version of Sutton Vane's morality play (Outward Bound) about death and judgment...
...film was made with care and skill, but the intricate military story is told too doggedly, with too much commentary. A general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most unfortunate touch is the finale between the off-screen voices of a British and a U.S. soldier philosophizing vaguely about the postwar world, signing off with a glad, excruciating: "Wot a job! Bringin' back the smiles to kids' faces...
Since the policy of the Gayety Theatre does not encourage either previews or reviews of its current screen offerings (the management feels that such comment will fall to do full justice to its shows), this is the first and perhaps the last excursion of The Moviegoer into the lair of naughty, risque films...
...time to sleep or wipe the sweat, dirt and blood off their faces, a group of U.S. Marines was whisked straight from the fight on Eniwetok to somebody's idea of heaven: a movie. Dog-tired, they were glad enough to flop down anywhere. Suddenly on the wrinkled screen, smiling winsomely, glowed the features of Frank Sinatra. And soft against the battle-battered Marine eardrums throbbed Frank's velvet protestations of his love for them. There was a short, amazed, ecstatic silence; then the Marines yawped, groaned and moaned, "Frankie, Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie, kiss me Frankie...