Word: callans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major Cooper picks his first hero (Michael Callan) in a skirmish, and at the battle of Ojos Azules, a remarkably clear and exciting action sequence, he finds four more (Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Dick York). The colonel then puts Cooper and his heroes in charge of a U.S. citizen (Rita Hayworth) accused of giving aid and comfort (of a suggestively unspecified nature) to the enemy, and orders them north to Cordura, three days' ride across a waterless waste. On the way Cooper tells the men that they will be nominated for the Medal of Honor, and asks...
...doing his postwar Army turn at a quartermaster depot near Bordeaux, France. Militarily, the place is a joke. The company captain is a whisky-tippling, well-intentioned weakling who has never successfully crossed the no man's land that separates officers from enlisted men. When Master Sergeant Albert Callan, a World War II hero and an Army regular, is assigned to the company, the captain quickly melts into the background. The men get on the ball, and the sergeant, half hated, half respected, is insistently felt as a ruthless, unbending presence who is long on Army regulations, short...
...suppose you might call Flesh and Fury a message movie. It is all about deafness, sympathy, greed, etc., and every line is loaded--ready to go off in the direction of some great truth. Tony Curtis, as "Dummy" Callan--a deaf boxer who regains his hearing only to lose it again--sums up the moral in one sentence: "I don't feel different." That is the great truth then: deaf people are not sub-human after...
...particularly unstimulating. The symbols are painfully obvious: Jan Sterling, as the money-sucking girl friend, represents all who are callous and indifferent towards the naturally afflicted; Mona Freeman, as a reporter and a member of a wealthy family, represents the sympathetic and the understanding. These two struggle insipidly for Callan's love, the outcome never in doubt. Virtue at length triumphs, not through its own strength, but through the machinations of the plot...
...such scenes, and they are magnificent. The camera moves hectically from ringside to closeup--pausing now to depict a face reeling under the blows of a blurred glove, a kidney being jabbed, or an eye being gouged, then jumping to the front-row seats for a glimpse of Callan's anguished trainers, and returning to the bout again. Long experience in shooting fights has taught moviemakers how to film such scenes with maximum effectiveness...