Abstract

Films

The article comments on motion pictures that were released in the past fortnight. The films come under two categories, stale junk rehashed without an atom of distinction, and stale junk rehashed with just enough distinction to make it appear different. To the first category belong "White Shoulders", "The Lady Who Dared", "Lover Come Back", "She-Wolf", to the second, "The Maltese Falcon" and "A Free Soul". A picture that stands out against these second- and third-rate fabrications from Hollywood is "The Five-Year Plan," the Russian film at the Central. The film, it must be admitted, never shows people the dynamic force that relates the component parts of the plan to one another and has welded the industrial efforts of the Soviet Union into a drive of epic grandeur.