Contrary to the standard horse opera formula, in this show the Mountics don't get their man--the Texas Rangers walk off with him, and the Redcoats get only their woman. But Madeleine Carroll is the Canadian's bacon; so it would seem that Uncle Sam got the short end of the foreign exchange again. In contrast to the prim cold beauty of the blonde nurse, Paulette Goddard plays a passionate halfbreed who nearly loses the Northwest for the Union Jack by tempting a policeman from his post during an Indian rebellion. Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than the Redskins, a little bolder than the Queen's bravest, and occasionally almost as bare as the northern crags. Texan Gary Cooper plays Texan Gary Cooper as well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart but for the suspender button.

The remainder of the program is a well-assorted collection of war propaganda featuring Christmas in London ad dive-bombing at the Pensacola Naval Flying School. To relieve that grim note a style show is included which displays, as the announcer succinctly puts it, "the latest dresses with bags to match."