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...Around Us (RKO Radio) is an attempt to do in pictures what Rachel Carson did with words in her bestseller about the eternal mother of the world, the sea. Picture for picture the feature-length film is quite as good as the book is word for word-there are glimpses of the green abyss of genesis that take the breath with their terror and loveliness. On this ground, there can be small quarrel with the Academy Award pronouncing The Sea the best Technicolor documentary made last year...
Pilate's Wife (RKO...
Split Second (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) seems to be a dramatic chip off Robert Sherwood's 1935 play, The Petrified Forest. It tells of a desperado who holds a group of strangers at gunpoint mercy, but it adds an up-to-date plot switch: the action takes place in a Nevada ghost town located in a restricted testing-ground area where an atom bomb is about...
Further complications in film showings developed last week when the HLU secured for the UN Council the RKO film "Make Mine Music." The HLU secured the movie through a film location agreement with RKO, which specified the Liberal Union as the only organization to show RKO films at the college. RKO announced yesterday that although the film was given to another group without remuneration for HLU, it was a breach of agreement. The UN Council had also planned to show the RKO film "The Outlaw" later this month with an identical agreement with...
...Hitchhiker (The Filmakers; RKO Radio) is a crisp little thriller inspired by the real-life story of Billy Cook, who in 1951 killed six people on a transcontinental murder spree. The picture opens with a couple of Mexico-bound vacationing fishermen (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) picking up a hitchhiker (William Talman), who turns out to be an escaped convict and murderer. It ends with the Mexican police closing in on the killer and his intended victims just in the nick of time...