Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actor's efforts do not salvage much of the film. I cannot believe that this production is very true to Sitwell; it has no wit or lightness. In fact, the whole mediocre picture looks much too much like an American production for comfort. The disease may very likely be spreading...
...group around Mr. Conant was almost impenetrable, a fact which caused fretting among these circling on the periphery. In the vortex, Mr. Conant was slowly revolving as questions--the usual questions--were...
...since there was much honest disagreement as to the merits of the elective and appointive systems, there was provision that after three years the Council should review itself and its constitution. The Council has now arranged to do this: it has in fact outdone itself in self-analysis by appointing two committees to cover the ground...
...made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads his way through these overworked signposts of character and makes each of the "Screaming Eagles" a rounded, tough human being. Ruthlessly demanding authentic gesture and movement from his actors, Wellman even gets...
...steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...