Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recording was stopped. Another (a 1942 speech) was put on. There were the same old phrases, the same bombast, the same guttural sarcasm. There could be little doubt. Delivery, syllabic emphasis and sentence build-up harmonized perfectly. There was only one difference: Hitler's 1945 voice lacked the fire of three years ago, but the fury remained...
This was the old shrill cry; it was unmistakably Hitler...
Tomorrow, the World! (United Artists) is a straightforward screen version of last year's straightforward stage melodrama (TIME, April 26, 1943) about the little boy from Hitler's Germany who brings his Nazi-conditioned reflexes into a liberal-minded American household and practically destroys it before he begins to see the dawn's early light...
...desk in search of important military information, and uses every means of whining, ingratiation and deceit at his young command to get the members of the family against one another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck's. Indeed it is hardly necessary for Emil to try to murder his young cousin (Joan Carroll) to convince everyone that he is, in fact, a symptom of a very ugly kind of social disease, a possibly incurable...
...screen version of Tomorrow, the World! preserves intact and unimproved the play's prime weakness. The protagonist, son of a heroic anti-Nazi, learned to despise his father and to adore Hitler almost wholly through terror rather than persuasion. He is thus too specialized a case to represent the common run of Hitler's children, or to prove, in the story's closing suggestion that he is reconstructible, that there is any such hope for them...