Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wild rumor in the early days of the war. To Commander Leighton's detached eye, the war was only a minor cause of Poston's troubles. Many of those troubles sprang from the universal resentment men feel at being confined against their will, and from the universal conflict which results when different types of people are thrown closely together. For the 18,000 Japs at Poston were of all types. There were Christians and Buddhists, bankers and fishermen, farmers and shopkeepers. By birth and background they fell into three basic groups...
...Conflict (Warner), in this film, develops chiefly between the edgy performance of many scenes and the plot-which, though basically all right, is much too fancily and obviously worked out. Humphrey Bogart, a grimly unhappy husband, murders Rose Hobart, his wife, for love of Alexis Smith, her younger sister, only to find that Miss Smith has no use for him. In the course of describing just how his wife looked when he last saw her, he makes a single mistake that punctures his otherwise airtight alibi. Since mystery-hardened cinemaddicts can hardly fail to miss his slip, it becomes much...
Humphrey Bogart plays the unlucky killer with his usual proficient intensity, and Rose Hobart is bitterly knowledgeable as the hating, hated wife. There is enough talent and ambition involved in Conflict to make another Double Indemnity-which is roughly what its makers were trying for. But the picture is too ornate to be of genuine psychological interest, and too slow to be thoroughly exciting...
That's the Spirit (Universal) climbs likably if loutishly aboard one of the only two "trends" discernible in rudderless current movies. Like Wonder Man and Where Do We Go From Here?, it is a comic fantasy. (The other trend, well represented by Conflict-see above-is crime melodrama with Freudian parsley...
...left, the opposition between those who believed in the "irrepressible conflict" and those who did not was creating rifts. In New York, the Nation's Louis Fischer resigned because he thought the magazine's policy too pro-Russian (see PRESS...