Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalingrad. All through the summer of 1942, the Red Army retreated-and Voronov hoarded his cannon. Like Stalin, he gambled on Stalingrad's guts. If the city held out, the hoarded men and guns would play havoc with the Germans. Stalingrad held...
Second-fiddling the fun is pert, legsome June Havoc (Pal Joey), cast as a lady bullfighter from the States, and given to such rhymed ruefulness...
General Weather. Fog, rain, snow, tide, wind and moon will have much to do with the timing. Cold, rainy, foggy January and February are poor invasion months. March is better, though its winds can play havoc with shallow-bottomed craft. Treacherous, unpredictable Channel fogs are no worse in March than in any other month...
...Todd uses for the basis of his show, and a very good basis it is at that. Into this colorful pot pourri he has tossed leering Bobby Clark as a racketeer turned South American good-will ambassador. Also on this "Mexican Hayride" are Wilbur Evans to sing, June Havoc to sing and dance, and Luba Malina both to sing and to look beautiful. Of the three June Havoc stands out with her sparkling rendition of "There Must Be Someone For Me," the only standout tune in an otherwise weak Cole Porter score...
...nurses in Cry Havoc are a quiet, middle-aged captain (Fay Bainter), a lieutenant (Margaret Sullavan) who, though fever-ridden, refuses to quit, a veteran volunteer (Marsha Hunt), and a rather luscious, well-intentioned lot of newcomers whose chief qualifications for the job are their good intentions and a dabbler's acquaintance with first aid. Short of medicine, food, sleep and experience, they do what they can when the Japanese bomb their hospital, strafe their open wards...