Monday, Jun. 06, 1938
Also Showing
The Saint in New York (RKO Radio) is the first cinemogrification of an airy young crime-fiction character, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint." The Saint (Louis Hayward) invades Manhattan, flushes and exterminates a racketeer mob from punk to big shot, with invaluable fingerwork by a darkling moll (Kay Sutton).
Creator of "The Saint," 31-year-old British Author Leslie Charteris, considered by many the successor to the late Edgar Wallace, has been turning out crime fiction by the yard for the last decade, is credited with 1,000,000 readers. In cinema, despite neat melodramatic treatment, his pulpy improbabilities need glossing over, his lithograph Saint a retouching.
Girl in the Street (Gaumont British). Last cinema appearance in the U. S. of blonde British Cinemactress Anna Neagle was in the regal weeds of the Widow of Windsor. This time she sets out in Romany raiment beside a barrel organ, soon warbles her way up in the world. Far too grim and determined a gamine for this two-dimensional story, vaunted Actress Neagle succeeds largely in proving that even she can make a B.
Current & Choice
Yellow Jack (Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Charles Coburn, Lewis Stone; TIME, May 30).
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains; TIME, May 16).
Vivacious Lady (Ginger Rogers, James Stewart; TIME, May 16).
Test Pilot (Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy; TIME, April 25).
There's Always a Woman (Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas; TIME, April 18).
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