The New Pictures

Betrayal from the East (RKO-Radio) is vouched for by Drew Pearson as a true story. Eddie Carter (Lee Tracy), an ex-soldier who likes easy money, uneasily decides to pick up $10,000 of it by selling the Japanese his country's plans for the defense of the Panama Canal. Then he lets G-2 know about it. One G-2 agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These and other complications wind through a labyrinth of hidden dictaphones, hideous tortures, sinister slant eyes, vicious voices.

Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (20th Century-Fox) is a well-ventilated, prettily colored sequel to My Friend Flicka (TIME, April 26, 1943). Its simple story (Roddy McDowall breaks and trains Thunderhead; Thunderhead runs a race, kills a wild Albino stallion that has been raising hob among the local mares and becomes king of the herd) keeps horses constantly moving in the open air, across grandiose Northwestern landscapes. Horses in motion are always cinegenic, whether or not the motion makes any other sort of sense; and a couple of fights in this picture are dramatic as well as beautiful to watch. Best performance is the Albino's: his intransigent head, scornful mouth and ice-blue eye make him look like a creature of legend.

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