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...Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least...
...Front in North Africa (U.S. Signal Corps-Warner) might be more appropriately titled "Darryl Zanuck's War." A Technicolor panorama of the early stages of the North African invasion, it was filmed by 42 Signal Corps photographers under Cinemaestro Zanuck's personal direction. It has all the Zanuck fingerprints: it is flamboyant, melodramatic, sometimes corny, sometimes hysterical-but never dull. A pretty picture, it never approaches the unvarnished realism of the best Nazi or Soviet war films...
...second, feature is a Technicolor short, "The Fighting Engineers", which glorifies that arm of our services. It's the sort of thing that the men concerned are proud to see, but always nauseates them a little...
...there had been a plot, and if Betty Grable and John Payne could do some thing more than look like Mr. and Mrs. Superman, "Springtime In the Rockies" might have been something more than a hot trumpet solo by Harry James in technicolor. But you can't toss off Carmen Miranda, as much the gleeful eyeful as ever, whose antics are as refreshing as a Navy Smoker...
Saludos Amigos (RKO-Radio-Disney) is a good-neighborly, Technicolor whimsey that has made Walt Disney one of South America's favorite North Americans. Shown first in South America, the film broke theater records; one audience in Rio de Janeiro screamed so loudly for an encore that another feature had to be halted in mid-reel and Saludos Amigos run off again...