Pinky (20th Century-Fox) is the most ambitious and costly of this season's crop of Negro-problem filmsincluding Home of the Brave and Lost Boundaries. Pinky was finished after its B-budgeted rivals had proved at the box office that the public is interested in movies that give serious treatment to a serious theme, e.g., the sorry plight of the U.S. Negro. Partly because it puts entertainment above soap-boxing, Darryl Zanuck's sleek movie is head & shoulders above its predecessors both as entertainment and propaganda.
Despite its high Hollywood gloss, the story is told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless...
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