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Scaramouche (M-G-M), based on Rafael Sabatini's costume-adventure yarn of pre-revolutionary France, combines spirited swordplay with a somewhat sluggish screenplay. Scaramouche (Stewart Granger) is an aristocrat who is bent on avenging the murder of his friend by malevolent Monarchist Mel Ferrer. Not only does Granger prove more than worthy of Master Swordsman Ferrer's steel; he also proves to be quite a gay blade by hiding out from the authorities with a troupe of traveling players. By the fadeout, Granger has found that Ferrer is really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
Shuffle Along (music & lyrics by Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle; book by Flournoy Miller & Paul Gerard Smith) is an almost totally different show from the one that Broadway took to its heart in 1921. Unhappily, in fact, it is not really a show at all. A ragged World War II yarn about a lively WAC widow whose husband turns out not to be dead, it shambles and stumbles along in the choking dust of old dialect gags, while the music and dancing seem to prolong the agony rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness (TIME, April...