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...Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a Technicolored distention of James Thurber's short story about a daydreaming timid-soul, is Danny Kaye's funniest movie. Henpecked half out of his senses by his mother (Fay Bainter) and threatened with worse by a sinister fiancee (Ann Rutherford) and prospective mother-in-law (Florence Bates), the celluloid Mitty (Kaye) deserves a Secret Life if ever a man did. He has several, all derived from the ferocious pulps he is paid to proofread...
...Long Night (RKO Radio] is a powerfully unified, extravagantly energetic melodrama about a bewildered killer (Henry Fonda) and the cause and consequence of his deed. The killer is trapped in his little room, high in a poor man's hotel. He refuses to surrender. All night, while law & order works its way toward him and the curious public mills in the street below, he recalls in flashbacks the events leading up to the crime...
...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (RKO Radio) is a farcical love story with some genuinely new angles, some of them genuinely amusing. When Bobby-Soxer Shirley Temple falls head over socks for Bachelor Gary Grant, she invades his lair so compromisingly that he is jailed. But Shirley's big sister Myrna Loy, a judge, hands out a light penalty: he only has to squire the child around until her infatuation wears...
Film Switch. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. entered the newsreel field by purchasing RKO-Pathe, Inc. for a reported $3,000,000 plus...
Crossfire (RKO Radio). In Richard Brooks's wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...