Transatlantic (Fox). What makes this a brilliant picture is the way it has been directed by William K. Howard, onetime Cincinnati theatre manager, law student, sales adviser for Universal, who may be among the ten best directors of next year (see above). The story, which borrows the flashy tricks of Vicki Baum's play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with...
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