THOU SHALT NOT KILL
(Republic) Charles Bickford, to everyone’s surprise, appears as a Protestant Minister. Another surprise’ in the story is the appearance of someone for him to reform in that brusque but effective way at which practice is making him so proficient. Owen Davis, jr., is the boy. He’s well on the way to discarding the last stains of a dissipated young life when Sheila Bromley, barmaid in a dance hall, is found murdered. The boy is arraigned. Only Reverend Chris. can save him, but Reverend has heard the real murderer's confession under the bonds of the Confessional. He finds that he cannot break the silence imposed upon him by the constraints of a church other than his own. However, in the end Doris Day gets her man with a clean sheet. This is the ordinary mass-pro-duced film, and good enough in that class, but there is little in it to justify the risk it takes of offending religious susceptibilities,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 48, 24 May 1940, Page 38
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161THOU SHALT NOT KILL New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 48, 24 May 1940, Page 38
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