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Second--bow, Mathewson; 2, Potter; 3, Aikman; 4, Saltonstall; 5, Atwood; 6, Merrick; 7, Carter; stroke, Rouner; cox, Burstyn...
Palsan (Mayer-Burstyn) links together half a dozen short stones, each with different characters, and ranges from Sicily to the River Po. At its best, it beats any other movie the Italians have made. Its unity is in its theme: the relationships between men at war (chiefly U.S. soldiers) and the men & women native to the battleground. Paisan (rough G.I. translation: "bud") was directed by Roberto Rossellini, who made the famed Open City...
...Open City (Minerva; Mayer-Burstyn; TIME, March...
...Mayer-Burstyn), made by OWI Overseas in 1943 for European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
Open City (Minerva; Mayer-Burstyn) was made in 1944-45 by Italians in Italian. The first major film to be produced in the new Italy, it tells a brutally frank story of the German occupation: the worries and dislocations of Roman family life, the work of anti-Fascist partisans, the horrors of Gestapo methods of torture...