Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pied Piper (20th Century-Fox) pipes sumptuous Monty ("The Beard") Woolley out of his wheel chair for the first time since he began playing The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Jan. 26) three years ago. The change is good for him. The belligerent old nanny goat turns into a very human portrait of a crotchety, kindly Englishman caught in France by the Nazi invasion. But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children...
United We Stand (20th Century-Fox) huffs & puffs at the jumbo job of stuffing 23 fat years (1919-42) of world history into seven lean reels of film. The purpose of this sausagery is to make clear to Americans how the 28 United Nations got together to fight the Axis. It is more likely to make them scratch their heads...
West With The Night is a tough, un even, undisciplined, sometimes remarkable, often annoying book-chiefly about Aviatrix Beryl Markham's experiences in the hot blue skies and green hills of Africa. Author Markham reveals herself as a self-made extravert, a museum sample of 20th-century primitivism at its simplest. Her harsh, keen story is a sort of Diana myth brought up to date...
...feels that our greatest mistake in 1918 was the failure of the Allies to destroy forever the prestige of the German militarists. If this time every German is absolutely convinced that his nation is completely and utterly defeated, Kohn believes that the rampant nationalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries may yet be replaced by a lasting system of collective security. A little paradoxical, perhaps, is his greatest wish-that the phenomenon about which he has written and studied all his life will soon be a thing of the past...
...Happened in Flatbush (20th Century-Fox) immortalizes the Brooklyn Dodgers (who won the National League pennant last season after 21 years of trying). The picture celebrates the travails and triumphs of a hammy Brooklyn baseball team, the civic and athletic regeneration of its manager, "Butterfingers" Maguire (Lloyd Nolan). The inspiration is authentic, but the film fumbles the atmosphere, fails to capture the special cachet of Brooklyn and "dem bums...