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...gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human...
...following men were selected to occupy billets during the Semester leave: Michael J. Kingsley--New York Navy Purchasing Office; Lambert Kaspers--Thompsonville, Staton Island, New York; John A. O'Hara and Arthur A. Aschauer--Navy Aviation Supply Office and Depot, Philadelphia; Ben B. Graves--Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington; Mortimer J. Roth--Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet; and John E. Keery--Boston Navy -Yard...
...Publisher Ryo Seki (J. Carroll Naish), shows him the error of his Western ways by explaining that Japan's eventual domination of the world is all that really counts, and that Taro should join the Army. But Taro wants to join his U.S. friend, Engineer Clancy O'Hara (Don Douglas), marry his secretary, Tama (Margo), help his country by building public works. Taro is drafted anyhow. In China, Taro suddenly acquires a taste for torture, begins to believe that father was right. But by the time Taro gets home on leave, his father has done a remarkable turnabout...
High spot of the film is the result of a party at which a U.S. newspaperwoman suggests that to amuse the guests Taro should have his men bayonet a baby or two. Insulted, Taro picks a quarrel with his old U.S. friend O'Hara. But because Taro's father is now Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes...
...even wounded. They could have kept on fighting. They had plenty of ammunition left. They had raided American supply dumps for food. But so eager for death were they that they could not wait. The grenades they could have thrown against Americans were pressed against their bowels in honorable hara-kiri fashion...