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...Warner Bros. has approached the story of J.F.K.'s 1943 heroism with a reverence usually reserved for a New Testament spectacle: not a chapter or verse of Robert Donovan's bestseller is omitted. This accounts for the film's nearly 21-hour running time. It does not account, however, for turning the first hour or so into a miniaturized Mister Roberts. All the old hands are on board. There is the salty Regular Navy-man who makes things tough for the fresh-water PT-boat jockeys; there are the stock-comic enlisted men with true hearts...
Making films about World War II is like concocting compounds in organic chemistry. There are roughly half a dozen entertaining ways to kill a soldier, nine or ten basic acts of Nazi inhumanity, perhaps fifteen kinds of heroism in combat, and at least a hundred bits of cliched battle dialogue. To put together a new movie, the writer and director have only to choose several ingredients from each grouping. Allowing for duplications, countless combinations can be made. Very few are worth the trouble...
Since 1861, when President Lincoln signed a bill authorizing it, 3,156 men have won the nation's highest award for battlefield heroism. There are 293 still living-and of them, 240 last week gathered in the White House garden. The occasion was President Kennedy's annual military reception, and the President had invited the Medal of Honor winners to come half an hour before the other guests so that he would have a special chance to see and talk to them...
Mother Courage, by Bertolt Brecht, is a firestorm of a play, raging over the subjects of war, history, ideology, heroism, vice and virtue. Brecht robs his 17th century heroine of her three children without breaking her fierce will to survive. In the daunting title role, Anne Bancroft unfortunately is not quite the earth mother she strives...
When World War I flared, Pearson joined the University of Toronto Ambulance Unit, and in 1915 shipped out with the British forces to Salonika. Recalls a comrade: "We pictured ourselves as doing deeds of heroism under enemy fire. We didn't realize that we would wash floors, clean people's backsides and empty bedpans...