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...soldiers bayonet Jap snipers out of foxholes, blast Jap machine gunners out of their nests. And he was one of the five correspondents who saw the fighting through to "the weirdest finish in the history of modern warfare"-the way the strange little yellow men committed hara-kiri by blowing themselves to bits with hand grenades...
...suffers from too much Hollywood and unnecessary poesy-feeding. Like Steinbeck's novel, "The Moon Is Down," "This Land" doesn't mention locale, and its message lease fores and directness. The picture version of Stetabook's back in still the best of the type, but Charles Laughter, Manreen O'Hara, and George Sanders give you your money's worth in this...
This Land Is Mine (RKO-Radio), Hollywood's 19th film about Nazi-occupied countries, is also one of the more ambitious. It has the added attractions of Charles Laughton, who is an actor's actor, and Maureen O'Hara's cameo beauty...
Hamlet-like, mother-bound Albert Lory (Charles Laughton) is a provincial schoolmaster in a conquered country. He is in capable of declaring his love for his young fellow teacher Louise Martin (Maureen O'Hara) and of standing openly with his friends against the Nazi conquerors. But the betrayal and killing of people he loves goads Lory into taking arms against the sea of troubles. He commits a blind, almost reflex act of near murder, which is forestalled only by the suicide of his intended victim. On trial for the murder he did not commit, the morally outraged schoolmaster speaks...
Another gentleman, to whom Eckstein remarked that a man who had committed hara-kiri was, after all, dead, quickly replied: "No, that's where his life begins...