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...grand stage for this humanized history is just the Minivers' staircase, with its grandfather clock that is always a bit slow. It means Home, and the camera, by focusing on it, never lets you forget it. First to descend is Young Toby Miniver, who clumps down with his cat under his arm, shouts to his father with understandable urgency: "I can't stop, Daddy; Napoleon wants to throw up." Last to ascend is Vin, the R.A.F. pursuit pilot. The enemy and death pass him by in battle but kill his young bride (Teresa Wright) at home. He realizes...
...greatest danger is that, in defeating the gangsters in control of Germany and Japan, we descend to their level of bestiality. . . . Not only does hate hurt the hater more than the one hated, but it is an unnecessary element in the fighting spirit...
Perhaps, the lieutenants and corporals guessed, the German blow would descend when the current Russian push spent its power...
...films at a time when the issues involved in this war should be effectively presented to the mass of people. That abused word "Escape" categorizes almost all the Hollywood output of the last three months, with one or two exceptions, that show to what bad taste the movies can descend if given a chance. Anyone who has seen "Confirm or Deny" can testify to this. The latest example of Hollywood's attitude to the war is seen in "To Be Or Not To Be," Ernst Lubitsch's new farce, a very comic idea made acutely uncomfortable because the locale...
...case. It rests on the undeniable major premise that the wrongs of the imperialist past cannot be undone, that present and future are what matter. The text is taken from the inscription on the $10,000,000 palace in which the Viceroy waited last week : "Liberty will not descend to a people ; a people must raise themselves to Liberty." The case goes on to claim that Indian self-government must be extended gradually, that sudden granting of it would result in civil war, ruinous to India and all its relations...