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Despite its gummy spots, e.g., a trite pep talk by Chaplain Leon Ames explaining to a battle-hardened gang of veterans why they are fighting, Battleground is the sternest studio-made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads...
...Brandon is better handled, though still undefined. The chorus of three Corinthian women has happily not been recruited from the ranks of the subway money-changers, as seemed to be the case in the earlier production. Gone is their folksy quality perhaps, but the dialogue has benefited. On the debit side, there are two actors playing Creon and Aegeus who either have dental difficulties or misapplied crepe beards. Much of what they say is completely muffled...
...Debit Side. In Houston, Joe Ernest Riley, surrendering to police, explained that he could not go on counterfeiting 50? pieces because there was "too much overhead...
After three straight tie games, the Freshman baseball team finally made an entry in the won-and-lost columns yesterday afternoon in Providence. Unfortunately, it was in the debit side of the ledger, since Brown won a 4 to 2 decision from Warren Berg's forces. The Yardlings elected shortstop Hal Marshall captain...
...someone is surely asking himself, what about the red ink side? There are some debit entries. Carelessness with facts and background in some instances is apparent; indeed, occasionally a story is printed which is entirely wrong. Again, for the older editor at least, their is too much smacking of the journalistic lips over the stripteuse who may currently appear on the local stage...