The fétreat io the past reached is extreme in "One Million B. C." the sort of yar ohe might expect from ati uffrotked curator of a Natutal History Museüm, and in Which Miss Carole Landis, more familiarly kiowh as the "Ping Girl," donned pfehistorie hides but kept her coiffüre intact, "South of Page-Page" was such pompously long-winded recoufiting of all the evils that the white man has brought to the blessed isles that it falsed the question of when an escapist film ceases being an escape ahd bétomes unutterable boredom. In this one âll the tatives tálkéd like tenth-rate foots afd Frafiees Farmer, as a Singapore trollop with a conscience, éésayéd the all-mother mood, Darryl Zatiuck, whose "Grapes óf Wrath" is among the "ten best," tried tô trip the light fantastic in "The Blue Bird," büt merely bétrayed his butifiiohs, The sweetness and light im this stigary gable of the quest for the blue bitd of happiness had approximately the same effect as too much chocolate cake.
Ersatz was the word for "I Take This Woman," in which Spencer Tracy struggled with his passions and the recollection that his wife (Hedy Lamart) had been a wife before, Miss Lamaft didn't help a bit and neither did the fact that three directors successively struggled with the script, "Moon Over Burma" we selected bécaiisé it is practically a lampoon oh the typical Dorothy Lamour film, Which already are caricatures of the Sort of stuff that sailors' dreams are made on, "Bitter Sweet," the remake of the nostalgic old Nóél Coward musi-cole, with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy wooüenly sfráyind themstives in sündry rorfiantic pos-tutes, was feather bitter nor sweet but just plain flavoutless, "Little Men" was the Towne and Baker transgression on Louisa Alcott's sentimental story, chiefly hotable for the screen debut of Elsi the cow, And the back of üf hana to "Turnabout,". the film. version of Thorne Smith's insinuating satire of a young couple who magically exchange marital foles, Told With all the grace of & Srfidking-caf joke, the film definitely merited the distinct tion of being in "the worst taste of the year,"
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