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Crime School (Warner Bros.) is a mug of cinema mulligan stocked with chunks of such seasoned staples as James Cagney's The Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind up in a tough cinema reformatory was entirely conceivable. That it would reform them as thoroughly as Crime School does is not so easy to believe.

Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter--like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since Tsarist days.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn. Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Olivia de Havilland; TIME, May 16).

Vivacious Lady (Ginger Rogers, James Stewart; TIME, May 16).

To the Victor (Will Fyffe, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder; TIME, April 11).

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