Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Vichy was the hastily fortified ghost capital of a rapidly dissolving Government. Outside the town, French Forces of the Interior were in control. Telephone & telegraph lines were cut, road and rail traffic halted. Inside, the futile skeleton of what had been Marshal Petain's Government click-clacked through motions of governing which were really a dance of death...
Divorce Revealed. Of Navy Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, "The Ghost of Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen...
...bunch of spirits on their way to Judgement Day aboard a crewless ship: a fanciful situation, certainly, but one that invites toying with. Warners have used their limitless celluloid element a little too freely, and where the passengers are sailing blissfully along, not yet realizing they are on a ghost ship, they are ignoring the fact that they are sailing on clouds--at least they looked like clouds to us. That error was avoided, necessarily, on the stage...
...Canterville birthmark was discovered on the neck of a U.S. soldier (Robert Young) billeted at Canterville Castle. When the ghost and little Lady Jessica (Margaret O'Brien) told him that his heroism must lay the Canterville ghost, G.I. Young was scared to death. But in the long run he proved himself a red-blooded American...
Fantasy, like realism, pays off only when it is created with fingers instead of thumbs. The best of this film is Laughton's broad hamming of the hammy ghost and some friendly moments between Miss O'Brien and Mr. Young. But not all the comedy is ghostly. One of the picture's funniest scenes shows G.I.s, abashed by M.G.M.'s conception of aristocratic England, trying to be graceful with their teacups...