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Under the auspices of the French Talking Films Committee "Une Etoile Disparait," a modern mystery drama by Marcel Achard, flashes across the screen of the Institute of Geographical Exploration this afternoon and tomorrow...
...gentleman who, impatient with conventional life in a small town, goes back to the racetracks whence he came, enters his horse, Broadway Bill, in the Derby and sees him win against heavy odds. In outline this is the story the cinema has been telling for a decade. On the screen it is something else again. Gaily adapted by Robert Riskin, ably directed by Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Lady for a Day), it becomes one of the most wisely amusing and genuinely original comedies of the year, an up-to-date sporting print with bright colors and clear lines...
Until the day of universal peace on earth good will toward men return engagements of that most excellent film "All Quiet on the Western Front" will be apropos and decidedly timely. Without overstating the power of the screen it is safe to say that a viewing of this picture cannot fail to inspire a decided conviction that no matter what the issue, settlement by war is not worth the price. "All Quiet on the Western Front", is more than good peace propaganda, it is very good screen drama. It is stronger and more effective than recent anti-war-films because...
...fact that some of the gags are already great-grandparents, Director Roy Del Ruth puts the products of these stars together into such a truly creditable production that you forget that Cantor is doing and saying much the same thing that he has before on the air and screen...
...provoke emotion by the dramatic movements of abstract objects, accompanied by the music of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. In time to the music, a galaxy of rings swim into view, a pyramid intrudes, something resembling a piano keyboard rolls over & over, 50 balls pass deliberately across the screen. This unhuman cinema is, according to its author, the first entirely abstract film ever made and shown...