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Hudson's Bay (20th Century-Fox), a pedestrian exploration of the beginnings of the great fur company, is mostly talking and walking. The rest is mostly Man Mountain Laird Cregar, a newcomer to the movies, and Paul Muni, badly in need of a shave and with a French accent so realistic that it is practically unintelligible.

Cinemactors Cregar and Muni are inspired Frenchmen who finally overcome all difficulties (except the script) in their effort to barter furs. Typical Muni walk: "through dense woods, along fast-flowing streams, across the myriad lakes of Canada, pushing farther north than any white man had ever gone before." Typical Muni talk: "Le bon Dieu. . . . This place for look--not talk."

Four Mothers (Warner Bros.) momentarily subordinates the maternity marathon of the four luscious Lemp sisters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane & Gale Page) to the vicissitudes of their husbands (Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran) and music master father (Claude Rains). Husband Lynn is about to write the great American symphony. Husband Albert is about to discover a germ. But since Husband McHugh has lost all the neighbors' savings when a Florida hurricane hits his real estate, the Lemps spend most of Four Mothers paying back.

Public appreciation of the Lemp family series (Four Daughters, Four Wives) is still pretty evenly divided between the eye-easy charm of the Lemp ladies and awe at the way the Warners continue to juggle the affairs of four recklessly reproductive families without balling up the plot, the personnel or the customers.

CURRENT & CHOICE

Convoy (John Clements, Clive Brook, Judy Campbell; TIME, Jan. 27).

The Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Gary Grant; TIME, Jan. 20).

Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers, James Craig, Dennis Morgan; TIME, Jan. 13).

Night Train (Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul von Hernried, James Harcourt, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne; TIME, Jan. 13).

The Bank Dick (W. C. Fields; TIME, Dec. 30).

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