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Face to Face (Huntmgton Hartford; RKO Radio) is a two-part picture of mixed merits that gets its title from Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of East and West. ("But there is neither 'East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth...
Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is an unusual cinebiography in that it candidly disclaims having anything to do with the facts of its subject's life. A foreword to the picture announces: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about this great spinner of fairy tales...
Looking anxiously around for a way out of their troubles, RKO's owners were canvassing the field in search of someone willing to take the company off their hands. They got some encouragement. Matthew Fox, who made a fortune in movies before he got into such varied fields as toys (Bub-O-Loon) and international trade (TIME, July 19, 1948), was trying to make a deal. At week's end, Atlas Corp.'s President Floyd Odium, who sold RKO to Howard Hughes in the first place, also got into the act. He said he was looking into...
Meanwhile, RKO's stock, which was at 4-⅝ only two months ago when the Stolkin group took control, was down to 3⅜. In Hollywood, at least, there was some activity on the RKO lot. Though the studio had no executive producer, it was starting production of Split Second, a melodrama, the first to get under way in seven months...
Montana Belle (RKO Radio) casts Jane Russell as the infamous lady bandit Belle Starr, "who can ride and shoot like a man." When men are not falling dead in front of Belle's six-shooters, they are swooning at her feet. She is pursued by Outlaw Bob Dalton (Scott Brady), a lesser outlaw named Mac (Forrest Tucker) and a suave professional gambler (George Brent). Belle so inflames these various characters that they get to uttering such phrases to each other as: "No man takes a woman away from me and lives." During all this, Belle, dressed in tight black...