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...Unknown Battle (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox), one of the best short films of the past year, explains graphically why, on Dday, the Luftwaffe could hardly lift a wing flap. Reason: the incredibly effective U.S. daylight bombings of German aircraft plants which, for the time being, as General "Hap" Arnold says in the film, in one week (Feb. 20-25) broke the back of the Luftwaffe...
While the participants in this witches' Sabbath are busy at its quieter passages, they make rather a good thing of it. The fustily ornate interiors of the mansion, with their finely caught gloom even in bright daylight, are exciting without help from anyone. Yet Dark Waters fails because its story, its characters and its scarey ideas seldom get beyond the blueprint stage. In this kind of melodrama, which depends strongly on atmosphere and psychological overtones, absolute belief is indispensable. Sample oversight: the failure effectively to suggest the peculiarly oppressive, damp heat of the locale...
...Those copies of TIME have been invaluable. Not long ago, I found I had moved out to my observation post and had left the latest copy in the pillbox. You see I had been going out there under cover of darkness because it was a pretty risky run in daylight. My radio operator and I talked it over and I won the toss and took the chance of crawling back to get TIME. The Kraut is a lousy shot because he popped about 75 rounds out on each trip and didn't even come close. . . ." CHARLES GOLDBLATT New York...
...picture's end, abetted by a gentle old prowler (charmingly played by Barry Fitzgerald), Ernie is beginning to see daylight at last. War is soon to engulf him. There, and always he knows now, he will "fight with the man who will fight for a human way of life." Human Beings. On the whole, Writer-Director Odets has kept his sociology as subdued as the warring lights and shadows and off -screen sound effects which he uses so fondly in his first picture...
...lesson learned in World War II is that a daylight bomber is only as good as its gunnery. This week the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. announced an electronic gun sight which, its inventors said, extends the effective range of bomber machine guns from 600 to 1,000 yards...