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...RKO has stopped whistling in the dark room. The once-bust studio has two grade-B pictures, made on what Hollywood calls a shoestring, which are outgrossing nearly every A-picture in a boom year...
...biggest low-budget money-maker in screen history until Behind the Rising Sun (cost: $210,000) outshone it by covering production costs in New England alone. In any normal year only a very few expensive films will gross as much as $3,000,000. Gross estimates on each of RKO's two sleepers, for the first time in screen history, run anywhere from...
Arctic Passage (RKO-Radio) is a documentary short about the building of the Alaska Military Highway. It is the eleventh and one of the best of RKO's This Is America series (Private Smith of the U.S.A., Air Crew, etc.), which are among the liveliest and best of U.S. fact films. In 20 minutes this show manages to give a vivid impression of one of the toughest rush-construction jobs ever undertaken-the building of 1,500 miles of road by 12,000 men in seven months...
...Lucky (RKO-Radio) is a gambler (Mr. Cary Grant) who dodges the draft and helps out with war relief in the shameless course of melting down an ice-cube heiress (Laraine Day) into giving him a gambling concession at a relief ball. Lucky's war-relief plan is simple: to cheat Manhattan's social heavy cream out of its white ties and rhinestones. But as time wears on, Gambler Grant, who is of Greek extraction, develops a tender conscience as a result of the courage of his compatriots and his love for eager Heiress Day. So he heroically...
...Limit (RKO-Radio) whips Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie and Robert Benchley together with some other promising ingredients, then collapses into equal parts of mild pleasure and disappointment. Most cinemusicals are so large, loud and splendid that seeing one is like trying to eat a wedding cake singlehanded. The Sky's the Limit is rather short (89 minutes), rather unspectacular (there are no chorus numbers), rather quiet (three suave tunes...