Monday, Dec. 12, 1949

Also Showing

The Story of Seabiscuit (Warner) offers impeccable Technicolored performances by several horses, and some old newsreel clips of the real Seabiscuit's most spectacular races. Also rans: Barry Fitzgerald as the horse's jabbering trainer, and Shirley Temple, insufficiently disguised by a brogue. Loaded with the bipeds' lame Irish humor and a desultory romance, the picture carries a top handicap which it never overcomes.

The Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue El.

The movie is the occasion for a film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life.

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