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...Halifax: "Small wonder if men & women everywhere are unsatisfied and ill at ease, since in their hour of greatest need they have lost that which was indeed their birthright - the knowledge of how to pray. Yet, amid all the sorrow and darkness . . . there is consolation. The example alone of heroism . . . as it appears in thousands of lives . . . [shows] that man has renounced the philosophy which paralyzed so much literature and art in the prewar world. Truly, as day by day we see acts of willing self-sacrifice . . . we can . . . turn with firm confidence from the temporary triumphs of the evildoer...
Johnny Weissmuller, unhurt in a bus crash, extricated another passenger from the wreckage; gunpowder from a prop revolver burned the hand of Erich von Stroheim. Reporting the incidents, the Los Angeles Daily News earnestly began: "Not all the heroism, nor all the pain is on Guadalcanal or in North Africa...
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...