Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great John L. (United Artists) is chiefly notable as Bing Crosby's first effort as a producer. It dutifully records the Boston Strong Boy (Greg McClure) as he rises to fame and florid magnanimity - through his unhappy marriage with a betighted showgirl (Linda Darnell), his un happy love for a Boston girl (Barbara Britton), his still unhappier fondness for training on Black Velvet (champagne & stout) and the inevitable consequences at the hands of Jim Corbett. After that came his long, pitiful period as an alcoholic has-been and his ultimate salvation - with the Boston lady's warm approval...
...rest of the movie, Tallulah contributes some very earthy kisses and a spirited champagne-drinking scene in a vain effort at seduction, while the new general equally vainly tries to reform the empire. Hints from his fiancee and several independent conspirators show the general that he is only a bondoir soldier. He retires, and the Czarina turns to the French ambassador for further amusement...
Japan was now the No.1 priority in the Allied war effort, and she was bitterly tasting what that meant even before the full overwhelming weight of the U.S. and Britain could be marshaled against...
...pivoted its great war effort from Europe to the Pacific, it came face to face with a startling fact-it was waging war against a god. Its sea armada had already crushed his island outworks. Its planes were pulverizing his cities. Now its armies were preparing to invade the sacred soil of his homeland...
...group of conservatives influenced by such old friends of the Emperor as Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma. Is a split developing between the businessmen and nobles, on the one hand, and the Armyj chiefs, on the other? If so, the split is bound to weaken Japan's war effort. Washington does not want to heal the breach by an overt propaganda attack on the Emperor...