Films Around the World

Likeable whodunit woven around the theater and members of 'the royal family of that era'....It zips along at a merry pace that arrests attention from outset and sustains it throughout.... Kay Aldridge is making her Broadway debut in a new play. Preem is snafued by murder of her wealthy uncle backstage. Alan Mowbray, the actress's father, is suspected. Although starring in a current hit, he's known to be short of coin. Being next of kin he'll naturally inherit his brother's estate. Dave...

This is an old-type blood-and-thunder gangster meller that's better than its no-name cast would indicate. A ruthless mobster's trigger-happy mood is reflected by many killings and robberies, with payoff gun battle in nightclub reminiscent of gangster shockers before the strict code era....Story starts out like a familiar cops-and-robbery, then disintegrates into a plot wherein police detectives misinterpret circumstantial evidence, and it finally winds up with yarn centering on a cold-blooded...

"In this children's movie, a young boy raises a foal into a championship racehorse that saves his grandmother's ranch from foreclosure. The brave stallion also saves the boy from the cruel claws of a great bear." Corel All Movie Guide 2

A hilarious romantic comedy about two middle-aged people who meet by way of a Lonely Hearts ad. ANNIE GIRARDOT is Jacqueline, and JEAN PIERRE MARIELLE is Paul. Through many early misunderstandings and mishaps their love grows and ripens, and eventually they find that life and love has not passed them by after all.

Dan Tyra, Helen Adams, Robert Fucello

James Arness is an "American clipper ship captain who is left in Queensland, sheep raising colony of Australia, to recuperate from injuries suffered in a pirate attack. The captain and two aides fall in love with some Aussie beauts, but their romances are interrupted by a 'phantom' pirate raiding the settlement. That calls for a rescue, with a rip-roaring fight between two sailing crafts... From this battle, the hero and some of his pals wind up on an unknown island." (Variety, January 31,...

The Desert Trail presented Wayne as a star performer in rodeos called John Scott. With his gambler friend Kansas Charlie (Eddy Chandler, dispensing the light relief) he is wrongly suspected of having committed a hold- up. Local feeling against them runs so high that the pair quit town in haste. They suspect two others (Paul Fix, Al Ferguson) of having framed them and follow the two men to Poker City. A small complication arises when Wayne takes a shine to a girl (Mary Kornman) who works in a...

Lash La Rue western with whodunit twist, with a missing body instead of missing cattle. "La Rue and his comic sidekick, Al St. John, dive into the plot early when they suspect something's amiss at a ranch hard by Rock Creek. Sure enough, badman George Chesebro has killed the rightful heir to the property to seize the premises himself. Saloon keeper Nancy Gates has witnessed the murder but she's afraid to inform the sheriff. After the usual moonlight search for the will, some hard ridin' and...

Moderately entertaining singing western with Eddie Dean. "Standard story formula deals with a band of outlaws led by Stan Jolley who have jeopardized the safety of law-abiding citizens in Red Gap. In cahoots with a crooked judge... they give Dean and his pardner, Roscoe Ates, a rugged tussle before the last reel unfolds. There's little originality in the yarn but plot works in plenty of shootin' and ridin'.... Direction is brisk and... lensing stands out." (Variety, November 19, 1947) "In this...

Blue Steel, is not so demanding of Wayne but it shows the same appealing sense of youthful sincerity that marked the less intense moments of West of the Divide--the likable, gauche manner, awkward but genuine, the sideways smile or open-mouthed grin, the sense of a largely unexplored but real strength of personality. Wayne played the U.S. marshal who sees a robbery and is suspected of being the thief by the sheriff (a tobacco-chewing George Hayes, working towards his later comedy image). The...

Singing western starring Eddie Dean. "With plenty of gunplay, a fair plot and okay songs spotted in the right places, 'Range Beyond the Blue' emerges as a better-than-average oatuner in the Eddie Dean series. Cayuse classic should find acceptance in most action situations. Still operating as undercover investigators, Eddie Dean and pardner, Roscoe Ates, foil a stagecoach holdup on a line owned and operated by Helen Mowery. Stage's gold shipments ostensibly are the loot sought by the road...

With PRC [Producer's Releasing Corp.] making every effort to produce westerns for Eddie Dean that are comparable to those Republic turns out for Roy Rogers, it won't be long before their personable singing cowboy star becomes Roy's closest competition with western fans. Like Rogers he is the type the kids go for. And his new picture, 'Romance of the West,' is a good, fast, rough outdoor film, photographed in Cinecolor. The story of this new picture... is not original, but it's been quite a...