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...Americana (RKO-Radio) might easily have been just one more plate of canned, tepid chile con carne served up as a hemispheric good-will offering. But Producer-Director John H. Auer and several of his players have turned it into a rather entertaining and realistic little picture...
...Thin Man Goes Home (M.G.M.) and Having Wonderful Crime (RKO-Radio) both proceed on the safe assumption that laughs and murders combined are usually better boxoffice than either commodity marketed separately...
...Three Caballeros (Disney-RKO-Radio) is that rare event, a Disney failure. Like Saludos Amigos ('TIME, Jan. 25> 1943)> this full-length film was made in the interests of hemispheric good will. The good will is entrusted chiefly to Donald Duck, who expresses it in terms of an alarmingly incongruous case of hot pants. Thanks to an ingenious but seldom very rewarding blend of drawings and regular color-movies with living actors, Donald whizzes from one Latin American beauty to the next like a berserk bumblebee. Since he remains at base a combination of loud little boy and loud...
...photography is the most interesting thing about RKO's quite unoriginal "Experiment Perilous." Seeing things extremely realistically throughout, the camera in many spots has captured the flat, faded look of old daguerreotypes to give this period melodrama authentic flavor. The plot, based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, and actually a direct steal from "Angel Street" ("Gaslight"), is, by its asked repetition, the picture's most salient fault...
...Goldwyn's The Princess and the Pirate, made last summer, has shown in many a U.S. tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight grip of M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Brothers and their theater chains on Manhattan's first run house, it has yet to appear on Broaway...