THESE ARE ‘WORTH SEEING

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 15

THESE ARE ‘WORTH SEEING

MARRIED BACHELOR (Robert Young, Ruth Hussey). Lively little comedy about a "bachelor husb..nd’’ with a wife who objects. "B" grade. Listener, March 27. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (Bob Hope). Good, clean fun, capably acted and directed. "‘B’"’ grade. Listener, March 27. TARGET FOR TO-NIGHT (British documentary). A notable piece of war propaganda, showing what the Bomber Command crews are doing. "A" grade. Listener, March 20. SERGEANT YORK (Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie). Cooper’s Academy Award-winning picture. This factual story of the U.S.A.’s No. 1 hero of the First World War, who entered the army as a conscientious objector, is much less a war story than a memorable personal document of how one man reacted to war. "A" grade. Listener, March 13. THE LITTLE FOXES (Bette Davis). Unpleasant but interesting drama of a money-mad family in an American town at the turn of the century. "B" grade. Listener, March 6. : TOM, DICK, AND HARRY (Ginger a: A delicious trifle, compounded of fact ‘antasy, with Ginger Rogers and the others of the cast perfectly suited to their roles. But the real star is the director, Garson Kanin. "A" grade. Listener, March 6. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman). Stevenson’s classic tale of the unfortunate physician and his evil test-tube twin, with the accent this time on Cec lien rather than on physical horror. tious painstakingly Freudian, it is

interesting, but not engrossing. "B" grade. Listener, Feb. 27. SUSPICION (Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant). thing happens in the last five minutes which throws an otherwise excellent Hitchcock melodrama out of plumb, but it is still well worth seeing-especially Joan Fontaine’s Acadad Award performance. "B" grade. Listener, eb. 20. THE GREAT COMMANDMENT (John Beal, Maurice M tch). An interesting if rather untimely parable of applied Christianity, showing how the early Christians overcame

their Roman conquerors by peaceful means. Despite some faults it does not forget that the chief purpose of even a religious film — be entertainment. "B" grade. Listener, eb. 6. DUMBO (Disney’s fifth full-length cartoon). In which Disney goes back to the animals. More simple than usual but no less effective. "A" grade. Listener, Jan. 30. HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains). Rich comedy of a prize-fighter’s soul in search of a body. "A" grade. Listener, Jan. 9.