Word: escapists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film with a war background is no novelty. But one with as refreshing and original an approach as the "Pied Piper" is a welcome addition to any motion picture season. It presents a smooth synthesis of amusing escapist fare, straight adventure material, and enough of what might be termed a "message" to satisfy the commonly expressed desire to see movies which don't ignore some of the vital issues...
Coming at a time of general dissatisfaction with the progress of the war, the Post is cleverly attempting to create a new band wagon on which our escapist groups can jump. These foreboding prophets say that "there is one rock or truth to which the common man may cling--economic freedom." But the common man has already given evidence that he is willing for the government to assume as much power as it needs to win the war. He has also shown that he expects the government after the war to prevent a return of the runaway competition which...
...take an interest in just who leads our Government we'll find worse things than tanks rolling around the home front. News that deviates a little from "sunk," "killed in action," and "taken" is most welcome these days and I don't consider that being an escapist...
...newcomers often do. That would be somewhat difficult, since he is the whole show himself. Appearing in nearly every scene, and dominating every other character in the story, Ladd neatly pulls a weak and often aimless story up by his own bootstraps into the realm of first-rate escapist filmfare. As Raven, the grim and psychopathic gunman who doesn't even bother to blink when he polishes off his daily quota of victims, he glides easily through a part that in other hands might well have degenerated into another "boy-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks" role...
...conferred with Petain and Laval, was rumored to have seen German officials, pledged allegiance to Petain, promised not to aid De Gaulle. Last week the aging escapist was reported to have offered to surrender, in return for release of 500,000 Frenchmen imprisoned in Germany. Since Frenchmen are a burden to Germany as prisoners and could be a boon as laborers for Laval, this looked as if it might be a very pretty answer to a very curious affair...