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First Yank Into Tokyo (RKO-Radio) might well be subtitled First Atomic Bomb Thriller Out of Hollywood. It was originally a stock B potboiler about a vague "superbomb," just ready to be picked off the RKO assembly line when news of the atomic bomb was announced. By snipping in a quick scene in a Washington office and pasting on the newsreel clip of the first practice explosion in New Mexico, RKO beats everyone else to the neighborhood houses...
Isle of the Dead (RKO Radio) is a shuddery set of improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many...
...Selznick, 43, who was reared in the movie business (his father headed Selznick Pictures during the last war) and had come up fast. Last week there was ample evidence that the man who had become rich and famous on Gone With the Wind was trying to move in on RKO, Hollywood's fifth largest moviemaker.* One day Selznick personnel took over the entire top floor of one RKO building. Forthwith, production was stopped cold on three RKO productions to make way for bigger pictures; many of the company's producers and starlets were paid off like extras...
Hollywood rumor had it that David Selznick had his eye on 50% of RKO's stock. But his eyes were big. Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corp., which owns 46% of RKO, has shown no inclination to sell even one of its 1,300,000 shares...
...July 15, RKO announced that it had completed a production and distribution deal involving several upcoming pictures with Selznick partner Rank...