Word: heroisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China, it appears, will be rescued "from her long torment" not by her own will and heroism aided by our equipment, but by a rescue-squad from outside. . . . Does the Churchill Government fear that China may emerge too strong if she wins substantially by her own manpower...
Edge of Darkness (Warner) is the Hollywood Western formula applied to occupied Norway. It provides two active hours of heroism and villainy with Guerrilla Errol Flynn as the lover of anti-Nazi Ann Sheridan. There are constant short pauses for simplified political ideology. Otherwise the picture keeps ripping on through to a non-ideological climax in which almost everyone is wiped out except Sheridan and Flynn...
Here's a good glamourless war picture for a change. "Air Force" is the biography of a womanly bomber whose crew thrives on calm heroism over the Pacific. Noel Coward may take a bow for the plot which is much like that of "In Which We Serve." Mary Ann is the heroine of the film and deserves the glory for her modest, but moving role. John Garfield and Harry Carey discreetly shun the light of stardom for her benefit, and rightly...
There's enough tense action in this British film to keep anyone's fists clenched and at the same time there's no Errol Flynn or take heroism. Add excellent, tight acting and real dialogue, and the result is a perfect war picture. It's the taut story of one English bomber crew, forced down over Holland, and its eventual escape with the aid of Dutch civilians. With little of the shooting and grunting of Errol's "Dangerous Journey", it is stronger on the human side, and that makes it a distinguished movie...
Awarded a Distinguished Service Cross in London for "extraordinary heroism" on a bombing mission over France: Major Al Key, famed endurance flyer of 1935. (He and Brother Fred flew the "Ole Miss" for a record 653 hr. 34 min.) The Major flew his Flying Fortress straight at two enemy fighters, completed his mission, returned safely with a cannon-blasted ship...