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Show Movie Reviews... "CHALLENGE TO LASSIE" color. Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks. (Running time 76 min.) American Association of University Uni-versity Women (New York State Committee): "Another Lassie picture pic-ture brings her to the screen in a . gripping drama taken from the story of 'Greyfriar's Bobby,' based , on an outmoded law in the City of Edinburgh where she courageously defies iron bars, humans, the elements ele-ments of nature and the law of the city to stay near her master. "DANCING IN THE DARK" (20th Century - Fox) Technicolor. Directed by Irving Reis Cast: William Powell, Mark Stevens, Ste-vens, Betsy Drake, Adolphe Men-jou. Men-jou. (Running time 92 min.) American Library Association: "This warmly human Technicolor Techni-color comedy with music is tops in the field of Hollywood behind-the-scenes. "RANGER OF CHEROKEE STRIP" (Republic) Directed by Philip Ford. Cast: Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Alice Al-ice Talton, Roy Barcroft, Douglas Kennedy, George Meeker, Frank Fenton, Monte Blue. Music, Stan-Icy Stan-Icy Wilson. (Running time 60 min). National Board of Review: While the film cannot boast of finely drawn characters, or episodes epi-sodes with dramatic tension, yet the beginning, novel in a Western, creates suspense and the theme, which concerns unjust treatment of Indians, is worthwhile. (Screenplay (Screen-play by Bob Williams.) Family." "THE RECKLESS MOMENT" (Columbia) Directed by Max O-puls. O-puls. Cast: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill, Sheppard Strudwich, David Blair. Music score, Hans Salter. Music director, Morris Stoloff. (Running time 81 min.) American Library Association: "This film is a melodrama of violent death and blackmail superimposed super-imposed on a pattern of normal upper middle-class family life. Donnelly, a disreputable blackmailer's black-mailer's assistant, is largely softened soft-ened by his contacts with his victim, vic-tim, Mrs. Harper, a mother in panic to save her daughter's reputation. rep-utation. Donnelly's self - sacrifice saves the Harper honor, but places pla-ces a heavy burden of eternal silence si-lence on Mrs. Harper, and it's our guess she'll crack under it. Many will consider the mother's actions foolish, mistaken and amoral. The place is good; there is high suspension sus-pension occasionally relieved by homey touches. Adults." |