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...gains deserved honors only because of its fine acting and brilliant dialogue. Both of these are best combined by Michael Rosenblatt, who merits applause as the year's finest scene-stealer in his role as the Hollywood producer trying to buy the "Home Life of the General" for the screen. "Spring Again" provides an entertaining evening, but don't feel badly if you miss the first...
...Palm Beach Story (Paramount), a wacky, sexy comedy written and directed by imaginative Preston Sturges, gives Rudy Vallee his first chance to do something besides croon, and he does it in a surprisingly winning way. As a pince-nezed, third-generation Rockefeller (screen name: John D. Hackensacker III) who pursues slinky Claudette Colbert like an expectant collector after a particularly fine butterfly, Rudy is a sketch...
...photographic film that is printed as a positive, no matter how old, can be put into any projector that is fitted with a Birch-Field "iriscope," can then be projected on a screen to show the scene's original tints, somewhat faint but true. Though few except Birch-Field had suspected it, the colors had been registered in the structure of the film since its first exposure. The iriscope is a simple transparent disk that fits over the projector's lens and is dyed with the colors of the spectrum in concentric circles from blue on the inside...
...recital yet of the lonely, tragic struggles on Wake and Guam, where Marines made good to the last shot. The film states what Marines feel as well as what they do. It is all the color and excitement of a four-year hitch in the Marine Corps on the screen...
Gentleman Jim (Warner) is a fight fan's meat and a thumping good show. It films some of the best boxing scenes ever shown on the screen. As Gentleman Jim Corbett, the San Francisco bank clerk who introduced footwork and Shakespeare to the ring and knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 immortal rounds, Errol Flynn flashes the fanciest left Hollywood has produced. Warners has surrounded him with the hilarious rowdyism of the prizefighting game in the '903, including a superb performance by Ward Bond as the great John L. himself...