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Sergeant York (Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Margaret Wycherly, Walter Brennan; TIME...
...finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives a performance equal to the achievements of Walter Brennan on the screen in his role of the dean who for forty years played appeaser to the stadium-building alumni. Only Betty Kelley as the emotional wife falls short of the generally high standard of the production. Billed as having previous experience on the Lone Ranger program and as a professional model...
Sergeant York (Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Margaret Wycherly, Walter Brennan; TIME...
...Wookey (by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, produced by Edgar Selwyn). Mr. Wookey, a tugboat captain, is a little Cockney who runs his East End family with as much assurance as Winston Churchill runs the British Empire. From the day before Britain enters World War II through the height of last September's great Blitz, he and his family go through blood and tears and low comedy...
...rest of the cast cannot be blamed for hardly making an impression. Author Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, onetime newspaperman, short-story writer and sometime playwright, forgot to provide his play with more than one character. The rest of his dramatis personae, including a policeman, an A.R.P. warden, a British colonel and an Irishman, he apparently picked from the most fatuous stereotypes in Punch's files. He also forgot to provide any dramatic reason for his first act and frequently let his farce run at cross purposes with his blood & thunder...