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...Master Race (RKO-Radio), one of the war's well-timed pictures, dramatizes some of the problems which face the Allies-and the natives-in a shattered town in Belgium, newly liberated from the Nazis. An American officer (Stanley Ridges) is in charge of reconstruction an English officer (Gavin Muir) holds services in the broken church; a Russian military doctor (Carl Esmond) uses his political sophistication to scent out local disaffection at its sources...
...Princess and the Pirate (Goldwyn; RKO) takes shovel-nosed Bob Hope to the bloodiest corners of the Spanish Main in the spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide...
Tall in the Saddle (RKO-Radio) is a western omelet made of the traditional ingredients and served up with a trifle more than the traditional style and fun. A hard young newcomer to town (John Wayne) renders a bruising account of himself in barroom, street and poker brawls, smokes out the skunk who killed his boss and, in the course of preventing a dove-soft eastern girl from being cheated of her inheritance, learns that he himself is the rightful heir to the K.C. Ranch. By this same bold fiat of plotting, which slices the Gordian knot paper-thin...
Heavenly Days (RKO-Radio) is that dangerous film from whose political propaganda the U.S. once proposed to protect its troops (TIME, Aug. 21). Possible reasons: 1) in a dream sequence silk-hatted Capitalist Raymond Walburn plants a spatted foot on the neck of Common Man Fibber McGee; 2) elsewhere McGee murmurs some higher economics about making supply meet demand; 3) still elsewhere, Soap-Boxer McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington...
Music in Manhattan (RKO-Radio) offers mild pleasure despite the barrenness of its musicomic clichés. Some of them: Ace Philip Terry finds aspiring Actress Anne Shirley asleep in his hotel bed; housing-shortage forces them to pretend they are married; Miss Shirley soars to success as a Broadway musicomedienne, whisks through five production numbers, decides she loves her ersatz husband for keeps...