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Bad Man of Brimstone (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), an old-fashioned Western, elaborately cast, expensively produced, neither better nor worse than scores like it, has the speed, dusty swagger, standardized hokum of the standardized Western. Its dullness is often redeemed by Wallace Beery's loutish homicidal cuteness as the bad man with a heart of gold.

Wise Girl (RKO Radio), a befuddled whimsicality, starts off by explaining that all its characters are fictitious, proceeds to prove them superfluous. A very rich girl

(Miriam Hopkins), out to wheedle her orphan nieces (Cinemoppets Betty Philson & Marianna Strelby) away from their penurious foster parent (Ray Milland), ends up with the hearts of all three. Sample whimsey: Q. ''What goes quack-quack and lays an egg?'' A. "Joe Penner."

Love and Hisses (Twentieth Century-Fox). What makes this latest Walter Winchell-Ben Bernie hurly-burly bearable is that whenever the Broadway gossip and the band leader rest from their mutual belaboring, pretty, pouting Simone Simon surprises everybody by singing pleasingly in a muted, engagingly unprofessional soprano. As a Bernie find whom Winchell, sight unseen, has slurred in a radio broadcast, she changes her name to Yvette Yvette, warms up on the less fluty flights of Lakme's Bell Song, proceeds through Gordon & Revel's Sweet Someone and a repertory that finally forces Winchell to eat his unsavory words.

Current 6 Choice

Tovarich (Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer; TIME, Jan. 3).

True Confession (Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore; TIME, Dec. 27).

Nothing Sacred (Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger; TIME, Dec. 6).

Damsel in Distress (Fred Astaire, Gracie Allen, George Burns; TIME, Dec. 6).

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