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...date of Spain's victory parade as El Caudillo's own private little matter. But long ago Dictator Benito Mussolini solemnly promised British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Italian soldiers would be withdrawn from Spain as soon as the war was over. When the last Loyalist citadel was captured, the British waited a discreet time, then reminded II Duce of his sworn word...
With a big plot transfusion from "The Citadel," Hollywood has tried to revive a hackneyed nurse-doctor, plot called. "Four Girls in White," the second feature. The patient died during the transfusion...
...selected by Film Daily's annual poll of 536 newspaper, syndicate and magazine critics: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; You Can't Take It with You; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Boys Town; Marie Antoinette; In Old Chicago; The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Citadel; Love Finds Andy Hardy; Hurricane...
Voted the best picture of 1938 by the New York Motion Picture Critics, who may or may not have overlooked "Grand Illusion," "The Citadel" fully deserves the honors it has won. Based on Dr. A. J. Cronin's popular novel, this story of a young doctor fighting for his ideals in a money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal...
...premier is not popular, has never held an elective office. His entire official career has been spent in the Department of Justice and the Privy Council. Both these institutions are surrounded by a forbidding wall of secrecy, are regarded by liberal Japanese as respectively the dungeon and citadel of reaction...