Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrown the concatenation of events leading to Silky's trial, conviction, and execution as the Earl of Galay. Arnold and British-born Edmund Gwenn support Montgomery superably, and amazingly enough there is hardly a woman's face in the entire 87 minutes of running time. This is no epic such as "The Grapes of Wrath," but in its unpretentious way it is well worth seeing. It'll give you an entirely new slant on the Hollywood vs. Foreign-made picture debate...
DELVING down into a close printed jumble of old inaccessible almanacs, Richard M. Dorson '37 has selected and edited in an extremely readable way the best of the Davy Crockett stories. That fantastic legendary figure, a combination of an epic hero and a coarse, earthy frontier representation of Baron Munchausen, is more than just an early example of American humor at its broadest and most extravagant. The Crockett Almanacs, with their crazy exaggerations and crudities and all their local color, have real literary value and show the frontier spirit at its best and worst...
...accuse Biographer de Madariaga of anti-Semitism would perhaps be easy-if it were not equally possible to call him pro-Semitic. His Columbus, opaque to biographers for over 400 years, is a preincarnation of Don Quixote, an epic figure of epic contradictions, sailing "across a sea of errors to the shore of truth." Even de Madariaga does not think his own view is the one & only. So he says, (quoting an old Spanish proverb): "Truth marries...
...Notre Dame," for it is more a tidy moral essay on the people versus the crooked nobles than it is a horror story. But the Daily Worker would then be as aesthetically wrong as it was in firing "the renegade Rushmore" for liking that "fascist-slanted, anti-negro" epic "Gone With The Wind," for "The Hunchback" is a dull film...
...Nazi epic came out of Berlin last week about the freighter Erlangen, which fled Australian waters towards Chile when war started. Short of fuel, she stopped at an uninhabited South Sea island for a month, while her crew hewed and loaded firewood, made sails out of hatch covers and tarpaulins. Alternately sailing (1,507 miles) and steaming (3,319 miles), she made Chile in five weeks (normal: two weeks), after burning most of her furniture and cabin floors...