Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only goats were the tankers. They moved swiftly, without traffic jams, did well all the basic things they had learned. But they were cast in a strange role: the defensive. Instead of fighting in great surprise attacks, they were used piecemeal. And when they did swing around the flanks in the end runs they like best, they found Blue troops waiting for them...
Sculptors at first were smug: no one expects a shortage in stone, wood or plaster. But last fortnight they got a jolt: a Government order specifying that after Jan. 1 U.S. foundries could cast no more sculpture in bronze...
When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple...
Although it is as dramatically incoherent as life itself, How Green is a radiant idyll of the dignity and charm of honest, simple working people. Well acted by a competent, unstarred cast, the picture is a credit to Director Ford, who is himself a big, rumpled, modest Celt (Irish) with a tidy mind, rock-ribbed integrity and a talent for turning out superb pictures (The Informer, Arrowsmith, Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach). It is also his last picture-for the present. He is now on active duty with the U.S. Navy...
...best potpourris in recent film history, "A Yank in the R.A.F." offers exciting glimpses of the bombing of Berlin, the evacuation of Dunkirk, and the conquest of Grable all three feats performed by Tyrone Power without so much as messing his coiffure. The supporting cast, sparked by Reginald Gardiner as an R.A.F. volunteer from the upper crust who is just bored with it all, give sparkling comedy performances; and a horde of extras with wonderful technical direction pack conviction into the military scenes...