Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARCIA DAVENPORT New York City...
...Right is Airsicker Davenport. Vasano and the Navy's remedy are much of a muchness...
...steel--in the forging of iron and in the construction of huge blast furnaces--and MGM has taken this industrial drama, fused it with a bitter strife between labor and capital, added a touch of intra-family warfare, and come up with an effective, if overlong, adaptation of Marcia Davenport's best-seller, "The Valley of Decision...
...story of family relations and frustrated love, Mrs. Davenport's story makes first-rate screen material. The handling of the industrial warfare, however, leaves something to be desired. Though the human tragedy involved is played to the hilt, not enough attention is given to the real issues involved, the issue of men versus capital, the fight of American labor to gain decent working conditions in heavy industry. But MGM is to be commended for the lack of bias in its presentation, even though it has failed to get at the heart of the warfare...
...Valley of Decision (MGM), Marcia Davenport's highly colored best seller about steel and several generations of steelmen and their women and chil dren, would have been no easy job to adapt for the screen, at best. In choosing too often the better part of valor, MGM has permitted too little of the imaginable best to survive. It was probably discreet to reduce Mrs. Davenport's 790-page chronicle to a few years and a few major episodes, but they move with little essential vitality, at a wedding-march pace...