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They Gave Him A Gun (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "I live for my country and work for it . . .'' says Jimmy (Franchot Tone) in this picture, "but when they order me to travel 3.000 miles to be a butcher, I quit." This is just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members...
Most successful Hollywood producer, as usual, last year was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This year, also as usual, MGM convened before its rivals. Pictures about which MGM salesmen heard most in Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands...
...Thirteenth Chair (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like all stories which depend upon contrivance rather than on character, murder mysteries age fast. What is remarkable about The Thirteenth Chair is not that it is antiquated but that it should have withstood at all the fierce corrosion of two theatrical decades. Pathé made it as a silent in 1919, Metro as a talkie with Leila Hyams and Conrad Nagel...
Night Must Fall (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer). Any moving picture in which the hero is an egocentric murderer and in which the action consists of his efforts to conceal one brutal crime while preparing for another, comes under the head of a daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London...
Good Old Soak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Old Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a likable small-town toper, whose worst sin is getting drunk with his crony, Al (Ted Healy), and Mrs. Hawley's hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with...