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Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...
...choose to run. He meets the Japanese peaceably and with dignity-only to learn that dignity is no longer a human value. His son-in-law's fat old mother, his second son's wife, are raped and murdered. His three sons, and the wife (Katharine Hepburn) of one of them, join the refugees who, carrying parts of a dismantled factory on their backs, stream toward mountains a thousand miles distant...
Later Ling's children return, experienced guerrilla fighters. They teach the humane old man to kill. He becomes the leader of the underground, is betrayed to his soft merchant son-in-law (Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...
...push to Garapan gave Hays & Hepburn special problems. It was so hot that the fluid in their batteries boiled while charging. Their equipment was frequently choked by clouds of coral dust from the roads. But they managed to stay with the foot soldiers, pausing to explain the action, letting the microphone gather the battle noises: wounded groaning, Jap bullets pinging against metal, the sharp splat of mortar shells exploding, the high hum of planes, artillery in the background, and the cries of men giving battle directions...
...Hays & Hepburn plan to return to the South Pacific soon with new equipment. Hays worries about the necessity of using words to describe action. Says he: "The whole thing doesn't come through a radio. If you turn the radio on full blast in a live-walled room, something of the sound is there. But try as I will, you can never get it. Your throat becomes a bottleneck and the words jell in your mouth." Even so, his warcasting is the best to date...