Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blown off by an aroused peasantry. Peggy Ann Garner and Lon McAllister are tossed in as a casual and extraneous pair of callow lovers, and take up some of non-doggy footage. But, unless you're one of that strange breed that dotes on animal pictures. "Thunder in the Valley" is hardly worth the trip downtown...
...those who take them to the theater are, as a rule, nicely taken care of too-which can rarely be said of the reverse process. An excellent movie for children is the Australian-made Bush Christmas (Rank; Universal-International). A passable one is the American-made Thunder in the Valley (20th Century...
Thunder in the Valley is a remake of Bob, Son of Battle, Alfred Ollivant's children's classic about rival Scottish shepherds and their dogs. Those who remember the glorious old rip of a character actor (Music Hall Veteran Will Fyffe) and the glorious black villain of a dog in the first version (the British To the Victor, 1938) will find the new picture comparatively genteel. But its very best audience, after all, has a short memory...
...drunken, bragging Scottish father; there are some memorable Technicolored registrations of solemn night skies and sullen landscapes; and the sequences in which the competing dogs work their sheep have a silent, lovely concentration on pure skill that makes the rest of the picture worth idling through. Thunder in the Valley is no Lassie and certainly no To the Victor, but it is a pleasant, gentle retelling of a fine old story...
...executive board: Selig S. Harrison '48, of Winthrop House and Pittsburgh, Pa., as President; William S. Fairfield '50, of Eliot House and Milwaukee, Wis. as Managing Editor; Paul Sack '48, of Winthrop House and Yonkers, N. Y., as Business Manager; Joel Raphaelson '49, of Dunster House and Pleasant Valley, Pa., as Editorial Chairman; George G. Daniels '48, of 74 Phillips Street and Short Hills, N. J., as Executive Editor; Burton S. Glinn '46, of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, as Photographic Chairman; and Thomas C. Simons '50, of Eliot House and Oakland, Cal., as Advertising Manager...