Cinema: Also Showing

Typhoon (Paramount) illustrates in garish Technicolor the peril to a besotted beachcomber (Robert Preston) of stranding on a Polynesian isle with an uninhibited child of nature (Dorothy Lamour).

She reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave.

21 Days Together (Columbia) is a reissue of Columbia’s two-year-old, British-made movie version of one of John Gals worthy’s ponderous gibes at justice. The Lord Chief Justice of England and associate bigwigs are made to appear as a clique of underbrained, overfed dodos. The antics of a desperate adolescent (Laurence Olivier) who gets mixed up with a White Russian girl (Vivien Leigh), inadvertently kills her bigamist husband, appear some how noble. The lifelong efforts of his elder brother (Leslie Banks) to make a career on the British bench appear some how ignoble. Occasionally tense, usually laggard, 21 Days Together will chiefly thrill devotees of the Leigh-Olivier Liebestraum. It is reported to be the picture which first brought the pair together.

CURRENT & CHOICE

Our Town (William Holden, Martha Scott, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Frank Craven; TIME, June 3).

Lights Out in Europe (Documentary film; TIME, April 22).

Rebecca (Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith; TIME, April 15).

The Fight for Life (Dudley Digges, Myron McCormick, Storrs Haynes, Will Geer, Dorothy Adams, Dorothy Urban, Effie Anderson; TIME, March 25).

Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME, Feb. 26).

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME, Feb. 19).

The Grapes of Wrath (Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Charley Grape win, Eddie Quillan, John Qualen; TIME, Feb. 12).

Of Mice and Men (Lon Chancy Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME, Jan. 15).