When Jon Hall and body arrived in Hollywood, many skeptics said that the more fact that he was an athletic-looking fellow and very handsome, did not necessarily imply that he would make a good actor. These skeptics were answered by the realists who said that the more fact that he might not be a good actor did not not necessarily imply that he would be a failure in Hollywood.

Now both of these arguments were based on rational grounds, but the realist school of thought failed to take one factor into consideration--just how bad Mr. Hall's acting actually was, It's not bad in the conventional Hollywood sense; it stinks. And consequently Hall, handsome or no, body or no, is a failure in his latest picture, "White Savage."

Maria Montez has looked more enticing in most of her other pictures and her acting has other pictures and her acting has nothing to recommend it. She plays the same old Lamour type--the island princess who marries the foreigner.

The movie is a slow-going, vulgarly conceived, poorly executed melodrama about love in the tropics with all the usual background of palm trees, native uprisings, buried treasure, virile torsos, and dishonest fellows. In the end of course Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Carribbean blue. The only good thing about the picture is the technicolor.

"Aerial Gunner" with Chester Morris and Richard Arlen while it at least has some plot, falls too much into the rut of the usual war pictures. If you like that blood and thunder stuff that acts like sandpaper on your nerves, you might like "Aerial Gunner."