Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial's first week came the first official admission of a story long circulated in Washington and New York: that a Coast Guardsman had surprised the four saboteurs who landed on Long Island's Amagansett Beach; that, after they tried to bribe him into silence, he gave the alarm which put the FBI on the saboteurs' trail. The Coast Guardsman, young, dimpled Coxswain Jack Culley, (see cut) told his story at the trial...
...story of the fire sounded like a carefully told bad dream. Hoses spewed weakly and went dry. Fire extinguishers failed. Someone tripped over and spilled a precious bucket of water. The man at the central fire-control station telephoned the bridge to sound a general alarm-the Coast Guardsman on duty there could not find the right switch (there were two switches but both had been disconnected). Donning gas masks, men tried to get into the smoke-filled salon, discovered that the gas masks did not work, retreated, gasping for air. An officer found some hose, frantically tried to hook...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is apparently a new kind of double-feature picture. It has the title and some of the music of Oscar Straus's 33-year-old operetta, The Chocolate Soldier. For libretto, it has the plot of Ferenc Molnar's 30-year-old play, The Guardsman...
These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid. Particular stumbling block is The Guardsman's plot: the predicament of an actor who, to satisfy his wife's yearning for amorous adventure and to satisfy himself that she is faithful to him, dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens...
...music doesn't fit the plot, and vice versa. The fun of The Guardsman was that the audience never found out whether or not the wife knew it was her husband all the time. M.G.M. makes it painfully clear that she knows it before the picture is half over. The lilt of the Straus score fails to come through the wayward story...