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...Body Snatcher (RKO-Radio) is a double-barrelled horror picture (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) which Producer Val Lewton and his associates have developed from the Robert Louis Stevenson short story. Laid in Edinburgh in the 18305, it involves the tragic traffic of a young medical student (Russell Wade) and his brilliant teacher (Henry Daniell) with a grave robber who does not hesitate to murder when a cadaver is urgently needed for dissection...
...Enchanted Cottage" deserves a good notice. No reviewer who has urged realism and honesty upon a film industry plagued with artificialities can fail to wonder whether RKO has not pioneered the way toward artistic integrity--and the thought of artistic integrity on Hollywood is rather startling. "The Enchanted Cottage" is warm, unaffected, ingenuous realism--however much one may doubt that it is good entertainment...
...Enchanted Cottage (RKO-Radio) is cinema's second successful production of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's famous play about a fine young man (Robert Young) made ugly by the war, a slavey (Dorothy McGuire) who was born ugly, and a blind musician (Herbert Marshall) who helped instruct them in the vision of the heart. To each other, the young man and the slavey become as beautiful as makeup artists can manage. Helping out with the spiritual atmosphere, there is also a housekeeper named Mrs. Minett (Mildred Natwick) who is gifted with second sight (a high wind makes...
...mushy. But because the story leaves room for a lot of sincere sentiment and for even more acting-for-acting's sake, the story is also an extremely efficient tear-jerker which can get past the guards of even the wariest. With genteel taste and loving care, RKO has turned it into the best sentimental picture of the season...
Betrayal from the East (RKO-Radio) is vouched for by Drew Pearson as a true story. Eddie Carter (Lee Tracy), an ex-soldier who likes easy money, uneasily decides to pick up $10,000 of it by selling the Japanese his country's plans for the defense of the Panama Canal. Then he lets G-2 know about it. One G-2 agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These...