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...HEART GOES A-JOURNEYING- Hans Fallada-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A whimsical folktale by the author of Little Man, What Now? relating how a lovable but erratic old professor rescues his angelic god-daughter from a villain of purest German...
...bands of Rangers. Fred MacMurray is the unblenching avenger who fears nothing but a woman, so Jean Parker has to propose to him, Jack Oakle is the picaresque here who gets a bullet in the stomach, fighting the good fight. The man who put it there is that irredeemable villain Lloyd Nolan, but he gets his from Fred. It's a strong picture, and lest anyone should miss the point, the moral is aptly drawn...
...Lavond, masquerading as a dear old lady,* makes big ones into little ones in the basement of a Paris doll shop, reduces his principal enemy to a 12-in. apache doll, sends him out to stick a poisoned dagger in another man he dislikes. Sentenced to die, the remaining villain confesses that the charges that sent Lavond to prison were trumped up, clearing his name so that Lavond's daughter Lorraine (Maureen O'Sullivan) can be happy with her sweetheart Tota (Frank Lawton...
...Villain of the piece is Jante, the small town in Denmark where Espen grew up, and from whose iron influence on his poverty-ridden, unhappy childhood he never fully recovered. Even when he left home, shipped as a sailor to the U. S., worked as a lumberjack in Canada, married and settled in Norway, he found Jante everywhere, its belittling, ugly standards the almost universal law of life. Because he hated and feared Jante, suddenly saw the bully who took his girl as the personification of all Jante stood for, Espen killed him and felt little remorse...
...proceed to extort money from broadcasting companies. Lloyd Nolm, who plays the company engineer, is supposed to be the here, but has antagonized the audience so that he is roundly hissed when his rescuers free him. Ann Sothern is his lady love, and Douglas Dumbrille, who has been a villain for so long that he must have a criminal mind by now, is the racketeer...