Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That WPB's synthetic program be followed in every detail...
Coaches Wade and Neyland finally managed to get 130 onetime players assigned to football detail. Standouts among the Eastern squad are Corporal Norman Standlee (fullback terror of Stanford's famed T formation and more recently the bugaboo of the big bad Chicago Bears), Lieut. Harold Van Every (one of Minnesota's slickest broken-field runners and later star of the monstrous Green Bay Packers) and Corporal George Cafego (tailback on Tennessee's recent wonder team). The Western Lineup boasts Lieut. John Kimbrough (Texas Aggies' 220-lb. fullback who got $9,000 for six pro games last...
...same, Robeson's towering personality unbalanced the play by dwarfing lago. Most absolute of villains, who hates goodness, craves power, thrives on destruction, lago-as somebody has said-is the plot, since he engineers every last detail of it, unloosing all hell with a dropped handkerchief. A great lago can usually steal the show. As a pretty good lago, Jose Ferrer (Key Largo, Charley's Aunt) could not, against Robeson, even hold his own. The result was unorthodox: an Othello that had emotional grandeur, but lacked psychological excitement...
...much fun to follow the problem through, Hollywood spurns a last chance to be original and tacks on one of its favorite hail-hail-the-gang's-all-here endings. According to the pattern, the whole preceding thread of emphasis is thrown out and a complete tangle of underrated detail suddenly falls together with breath-taking rapidity that is a let-down to everyone but master-mind Powell, sufferer Lamar, and a fatherly French foreign minister...
...there lies a land of treacherous natives, mad elephants, tigers that swim, and a brilliantly beautiful jungle. It's the kind of a jungle that every kid explorer dreams about, but no real one sees with less than four zombies under his belt. If you can overlook this minor detail though, there are several other bits of humor that make this picture a sorry contrast to the recent run of heavy drama. Top billing goes to Dorothy Lamour and Richard Denning, both well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer, the guy who lifts the film...