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Show 'DEAD END' CHOSEN 'MOVIE OF THE MONTH' BY SCREEN CRITIC rvTK "HT 1 ' l O 't. (if .' 1 "Film Version Of Stage Play Wins Plaudits L Reiki Cmm, HeHr1 M't tpaadeftl fw Hm feenir earvke 4 TV Teleerara, it prt tilmdeeVi Htn. ra kit awti 4 IK Ait vtvt, k rwtrh peseta pes-eta rfc "Merit , rk Meet'--vlrk taoaaatl Bjr ROflBlrf COONS HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 10-Rar noufh In any movie mwi U lb film that abandon th boy-mle-trt formula let aama social research. re-search. Thla year thr ha bn three outstanding "significant" motion mo-tion p.ctur: Thy Won't Forget." "The Life of Emll Zola," and "Deal End "Dead End" la thla department's "movlt of th month." This is aiightly mbarraalng, alnr "(XaJ End" corn from Samuel Uoldwyn, th producer who gave ua "B'.ella rallaa," my but month's "best." But that can't ba helped. Be "Dead End" aa you will II you ara Inter-and Inter-and In picturaa and thalr growth -and exonerate an. Hj a Flaw ar Tw Thla-I not to uy that To.id Cad." a aeraan play by Lllkan Hall-'Sim Hall-'Sim baaad an Sidney Klngslys taga sueceaa, la a flawleaa picture Aa everyone knows by no, it 2 A big shot qengtter, Baby Faea Martin (Humphrey Bogert), comat back to parade hit glory before kit mother and childhood! sweetheart. Face-lifting hat mada him unrecognli-bio unrecognli-bio by mott of kit former friendi. While kanging around he ttertt taaching tomo of tho licit fin poinh of gengtteritm. "Daad End" relet place) en Now York' Eat river front, wkoro Iwank eperrmenrt rita betid dirty tenements. Joel McCroa. at Dava, and Sylvia Sidney, at Drina (couplo at loft), watch tka apartment doorman at kit perpetual battle trying to make tho neighborhood toutjht keep their diifance. 3 Mott adapt pupil h Drina't brother, Tommy. But ho get caught by policeman. Hit cronies console Kim with tho reflection that he can learn new pointer In crime at reform tchool. In tho meantime, Dave hat recognized Baby Face, tipped off the cops end won the reward for hit capture. At ? Drina't brother St led off, Davo end Drina are planning to use the reward to hire e lawyer for the boy. tiaate or th aaaa of the alum hoodlum hood-lum and 6monstrata. through lam-bang malodrama, what ha Is llkaly te become unWsa aeclaty takaa atpa. Th "mesaag la glvn punch by th great aattlng dvlsd by Art tlractor Richard Day aftar Nor- Check-Up Last Manth'a tVwti "Alalia Dal la, with Barbara Btan-wyck, Btan-wyck, Ann Bhlrlay, John Bolaa, dlracted b y King Vldor. Samuel Oold-wya Oold-wya production. produc-tion. T k I a a e a t k ' a Kan nor Vpt , "Souls at Baa." starring Gary Cooper s B 4 Oeerge Raft, d I reel ad by Henry Hatha wav. a Para D mount iff ductloa. Claire Trever Mee Inteawetiag Mualcali "VaraHy Shew," starring Dick Powell with frd Warms' Paneylvaniaaa, directed by William Wil-liam KetghWy, a Warner Bros, production. Mar ef the - saeatki The "Daad End" boys. Chars star ef the month I Claire Trevor In "Daad End." . the character played by Joal He-Craa He-Craa tin tha ataga play a crippled product ef environment) la here atalwart and romantic. Thla concession con-cession te boy-maeta-glrl dsmanea may hlp th box-office, but not th picture's power. Anotnar u-aoya.ioa, u-aoya.ioa, elthuug.i admittedly minor, mi-nor, was the McCrea-Sylvla Bidnay aasumptlen ef the duties of Ureak chorus, chanting In dialog the horrors hor-rors and Injuatlcee about there, mint Worthwhile But I ean akip that and hall a decidedly worthwhile production. The actual stars are the gang boys Billy Halop, Hunts Hail, Bobby Jordan, Lee B. Uoroey, Uabrial Dell and Barnard Punaly. Bogart overacts, over-acts, but effectively, aa the killer, and Alien Jnkln as hla aide la far above hla usual eomsdy characterisation. charac-terisation. Wndy Barrle la good aa the wealthy man's mlstreaa In love with MeCrea, and Claire Trevor, Tre-vor, usually a romantie leading lady, atapa down Into her beat performance per-formance la her one-role aequence a the proalltute. Gregg Toland's photography Is, as usual, flrat-rate. auaa Bal Oaddaa original ataga est. ty eundry aubplota drama tie and melodramatic, and by William Wy-ier's Wy-ier's direction. Beeeea ArtM Wylr, rapidly becoming an authority au-thority ea translating stags hits for the ecreen with "Ths Three," "Doda worth" and sow "Daad End" on hie liat us the camera te bland the eemponant parte ef Ma atory Into smoothly flowing screen narrative. narra-tive. He doe this ae effectively that the single aetUng, usually a handicap, becomes aa aaaet One quarrel with the film I that |
