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...Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling of Oct. 15, 1942, during which William Bendix improvises a prayer; 5) the relief by the Army, which ends the film on a grim exchange between a battle-bittered Marine and an unblooded Army boy, and the closeup of a sign Tokyo, 3,380½ miles...
After leading her away from a coterie of equally observant autograph-seekers, he got his first closeup of Radcliffe's 1946 model. Blue-eyed with pleasantly blonde hair and a sloppily fitting pink sweater, Sue is a far cry from the heavyshoed, long-haired Amazon of former days...
...centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
...With almost no dialog, it tells the erotic story of a woman (Hedy Kiesler) who deserts her impotent husband, goes swimming naked, loses her clothes when her horse runs away, spends a night with the young man who catches the horse. The picture's title derives from the closeup scenes showing hero & heroine together in a cabin. Even French critics found these shots "extremely audacious" and Fritz Mandel, Austrian munitions maker and husband of Hedy Kiesler, was so outraged that he used all his might and money to have the film suppressed throughout Europe. Last summer Extase drew enormous...
...proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much of a threat the fault is less hers than a role which gives her half a dozen lines and a fake Oriental dance as her total assignment for the first three reels, one closeup scene registering jealousy and another registering defiance in the last four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life...