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...schoolteacher (Richard Widmark) who is harried by battle-induced migraine. Unlike the others, Halls gives its characters some dimension and illusion of freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove that Sherman was right...
...first set of disclosures fell like a bomb on Hollywood. Actor Fredric March was accused of being a Communist; so were Singer Paul Robeson, Writers Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ruth McKenney, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo, Millen Brand and Michael Blankfort...
...sense, original. Ben Hecht ducoed the Molnar play into the triangle. Donald Ogden Stewart and Alan Campbell whipped up the first act of Ladislaus Fodor's play Burberry into the brief burlesque. Two other Ladislauses, Vadnai and Gorog, worked up the Charles Laughton tearjerker. Samuel Hoffenstein and Henry Blankfort are responsible for the sharecropper scene...