Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finest Hours is a skillfully assembled and frequently moving sketch of the magnificent statesman-warrior-historian-painter-orator-bully who turned 90 yesterday, Winston S. Churchill. The film has nothing to offer in the way of balanced evaluations of Churchill's place in world history. But it does provide some insight into the qualities of his life...
...Finest Hours is an earnest, intelligent, generally uncritical documentary conceived as a tribute to Winston Churchill, who will be 90 on Nov. 30. Like Sir Winston's own work, and often in his own eloquent words, the film renders autobiography as history, submerging the private man in favor of the grand public figure who served his country, and his century, as First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister through two world wars. "It was the nation and the race dwelling around the world that had the lion's heart," he declares. "I had the luck...
...best things in The Finest Hours, however, are not the all too familiar history but the gentle, colorful, warmly intimate views of Churchill's resting places: awesome Blenheim Palace, where he was born; his country home. Chartwell. a rambling gallery of Churchillian art set within a walled garden; Chequers, the Buckinghamshire retreat of British Prime Ministers; and the simple, spartan bedroom 70 ft. below Downing Street where Churchill growled through some of the darkest hours England has ever known...
...patterned with darkness--the strange lighting gives it a mask-like quality--but light is shining on him obliquely, illuminating his side, giving a hnt of underlying self-awareness. This portrait haunts the entire show like a spectre, standing over the work of a life-time as the finest embodiment of Beckmann's genius...
...Bullpups, who shut out their first two opponents and then floundered through losses to Cornell and Dartmouth, took out all their frustrations on the unfortunate Tigers. Quarterback Billy Gales did most of the damage, completing 11 out of 17 passes and enjoying his finest game of the season...