The schmaltz could have been dumped on with a steam-shovel, piled high and gooey. But it isn't. It's laid on gently with a medium-sized trowel. This admirable restraint makes "Knute Rockne, All-American" one of the better football pictures of the year, one of the better biographies.
Mexico, fact and fiction, is the rest of the program. The fiction is a strange and rather original story called "Rangers of the Frontier." But don't let the name fool you; it's no conventional western. The fact is the March of Time's say-so on what's up south of the Rio Grande, another contribution to the general chaos and confusion that is U. S. A.'s concept of its 'good neighbours.' But after all, if the Mexicans don't seem to have a very clear idea of what they're doing, how can the March of Time?
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