Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the reams of blurb that have obstructed its path, however, the show has been somewhat anticlimactic. Gary Cooper is still the hero of Sergeant York etc. but he is cast well enough to make it seem right. The rest of the cast is as good an assemblage of true dramatic talent as the screen has offered these past few years...
Ingrid Bergman has made this spic her bid for an Oscar and she looks fair to get it. Her acting is superb and her part its her; in all, she proves her right to the inner circle of Hollywood actresses. The supporting cast is equally good, Akim Tamiroff's performance is one of his best, and a newcomer, at least to Hollywood, named Katina Paxinour, gives a stirring portrayal of the woman-head of the guerilla band...
...Beard was bound to do a mature book on his ideas about the Constitution and what it has meant to the U.S. And since his own mind has been a battleground, it is not surprising that the book, published under the Platonic title of The Republic, should also be cast in the form of a series of Platonic (or Socratic) dialogues. To his study high up on a Connecticut hillside overlooking the Housatonic valley, Charlie Beard has invited an imaginary Dr. and Mrs. Smyth and a few imaginary friends for a series of evening seminars...
Show the world who can slug. The professional cast of 42 boasts no big-name comedian, and the script (though written by Owen Murphy and Peter Barry, who have gagged for Joe Cook and Ed Wynn) boasts hardly a laugh. Says one spokesman: "The show's not meant to be amusing; it's very much like christening a new gun for the Navy...
Humphrey Bogart is the only well-known actor in the picture. To say that he is as good as the rest of the cast is high praise. Even the extras, for once, look like soldiers. Reason: they are soldiers who were training at Camp Young, Calif., near which the picture was made. Other members of the cast notable for their light, incisive realism are Kurt Krueger as the cold Nazi ace, Rex Ingram as the dignified Sudanese, John Wengraf as a treacherous Nazi major, Richard Nugent as a British doctor, Carl Harbord as an English ex-typesetter who likes poetry...