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...Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) wishes she weren't. The bishop (David Niven) spends so much time laboring in the vineyard that there is none left for his own garden. It seems that nothing less than a miracle can salvage his marriage...
...Well Remembered (Rank; RKO Radio). Once upon a time, in a beastly old castle, lived a beastly old man and his Beautiful Daughter (Martha Scott). They were wicked, of course, because they were rich. Down in the village lived a Promising Young Man (John Mills) who was good, because he was poor...
...first picture to be made jointly in England by RKO and J. Arthur Rank (a scheme which enables RKO to use up its frozen assets in Britain and gives Rank the benefit of popular U.S. stars) So Well Remembered is not a promising start. Except for the well-keyed playing of John Mills (Great Expectations), nothing about the film is likely to be so well remembered...
Mourning Becomes Electra (RKO Radio). The eye glides like a skiff across the black, lurching waters of a New England harbor. The sound track blares the black, lurching music of the chantey, Shenandoah. And on the screen the dreadful, faintly ludicrous enginery of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest lurches, and begins...
...praise and blame for a daring effort belong to Dudley Nichols. O'Neill, an old friend, would not permit the film to be made unless Nichols produced, directed and wrote the script. All credit for risking $2,250,000 in the venture belongs to RKO, which may have some trouble getting its money back. As one critic put it: "Average moviegoers are going to talk back to this picture...