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...apparently Rossellini is correct in charging that most of the scenes explaining this conversion lie on the floor of the RKO cutting room. Certainly as it stands now, her conversion is one of the most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth...
...spokesman for RKO, which will rush Stromboli into a "saturation" release next week, loftily announced that "Miss Bergman's private life is of no concern to the studio." But Daily Variety noted that the studio had been concerned enough to move up the picture's release date when it heard "that Bergman had checked into a hospital." By a happy coincidence, the picture will now open the day after a Juárez court, if all runs on schedule, grants the divorce...
...Foolish Heart (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is the kind of movie that gives women a good cry and men a bad time. Strangely enough, it comes from a short story by J. D. Salinger in The New Yorker, literary stronghold of the stiff upper lip. Under the treatment of scripter-brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, the screenplay turns on all the emotional faucets of a Woman's Home Companion serial...
Today, with his appearance in a picture reckoned as a guarantee of a $2,500,000 gross, Wayne is spreading himself so thin that he is behind schedule at Republic, RKO and Warner-each of which holds him under contract. One day last spring no fewer than nine first-run Los Angeles cine-mansions were showing John Wayne pictures. The payoff is handsome: Wayne averages more than $5,000 a week, gets 10% of the gross on films he makes for grateful little Republic...
Overwhelming popular demand has held over that paragon of western movies, Howard Hughes' "The Ontlaw," at the RKO Boston for a third record breaking week. But even three years of forced exile from the Boston area has not dimmed the lasting qualities of this momentous film. It is still the funniest and most pathetic western ever made. It must be seen to be depreciated...