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John R. Overcash '49--Louise Carrol...
...good (Arturo de Cordova), is trying to make time with a young woman (Dorothy Lamour) who is interested only in her boy friend Benny, at war in the Pacific. Between failures with her, the no-good succeeds in some fine gypping of Benny's naive old father (J. Carrol Naish...
This second half of the picture is played with a rare amount of honest anger and courage. The local Chamber of Commerce go-getters are mercilessly rendered by Frank McHugh, Charles Dingle and Grant Mitchell; and J. Carrol Naish, who is clearly one of Hollywood's top actors, is a perfect foil for them. Yet the picture has one persistent weakness. If it were honest down to the ground, as it means to be, at least one of the boosters might have had serious misgivings...
Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop they can be proud of, get drunk at a wedding in town, reassemble the pitiful remnants of their year's work after a cloudburst, and come into the fall of the year in a resolute, proud, sad knowledge of their lives which is granted to few except farmers...
...tank commander, is separated from the rest of the army in good lost-patrol tradition. In trying to catch up with the retreating British forces, he picks up a motley assortment of stragglers: a few Englishmen, a Free Frenchman, a Sudanese rifleman (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), and a German pilot shot down by the tank's accurate fire...