Word: haile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proudly We Hail (Paramount) enlists three of Paramount's brightest fe-.male stars (Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake) in a heartfelt, but highly fictional, tribute to the Army nurses of Bataan. The three leading ladies are so comely even in coveralls that, despite all the realistic shooting, they spend most of their time fighting a woman...
...lady in the theater didn't stop crying all through the picture. Maybe she had the cramps, but probably not. She didn't even stop at those funny parts when about fifteen Marines get blasted to pieces by Jap bombers. But "So Proudly We Hail" is that kind of a picture...
...public to watch mass murder with all the gruesome details of a close-up? True, it brings the war home to the civilians. It certainly tries to tell just what is going on in jungle warfare. Perhaps it even sells a few Bonds. But "So Proudly We Hail", as was the case with the earlier "reality", "Bataan", appears to defeat its own purpose by its very realism...
Berlin's searchlights shivered across the sky. The Luftwaffe's fighters rose in swarms. Some 700 raiders rumbled across the city, raining incendiaries, dropping a hail of bombs. Berlin officials who dared to stand by their radios could hear the voice of an observer circling in a plane somewhere on high giving commands to the methodical British pilots: "There's absolutely nothing here to stop you chaps. The searchlights look pretty thick but they haven't got glue. . . . There's a bit of flak among the searchlights, but none is as bad as it looks...
...student officers hail from practically every state in the Union, most of them are married and their commissions range from ensign to lieutenant commander...