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There are no stars in the film, no one personality around whom the picture's structure is built. Instead, each of the individual performances--Walter Pidgeon as the town clergyman, Donald Crisp as the courageous head of the Morgan family, Maureen O'Hara as his daughter, Roddy McDowall as Huw Morgan, through whose words the story is told--forms a part of the broad pattern which the film so effectively presents...
Tripoli's story is the old one about the ex-Marine (Minor Watson) who dumps his playboy son (John Payne) on his old sergeant pal (Randolph Scott) to be made a man of. It ambles through a romance with an almost unbearably beautiful nurse (Maureen O'Hara), a fight, a near court-martial, a rescue at sea. They make a Marine out of the young scamp, all right, but it hardly seems worthwhile, cinematically...
Many a notable family on both sides of the Atlantic has sent its daughters to Finch-e.g., the Manhattan Whitneys and Lewisohns, the London Selfridges. Jessica, who divorced the school's namesake and married John O'Hara Cosgrave, longtime Sunday editor of the old New York World, created a new pattern for finishing schools: Finch girls spent half their time on academic work, half on painting, music, theater...
...honor-laden Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, first commander in the Philippines, there was only one honorable course. Douglas MacArthur reported that General Homma met the honorable death by hara-kiri in General MacArthur's own expansive apartment in the Manila Hotel...
...shown. Walter Pidgeon comes to the town as the local pastor, and acts as the moderator and go-between in the social problems which face the ever-poor miners. His counsel helps to avert violence during a long, hard winter when the miners are on strike. Maureen O'Hara, the eligible daughter, falls in love with Pidgeon, but he, fearing he can never offer her a big enough income, shuts himself in his church while the Oxford-trained, spats-loving boss's son marries...