Word: hokum
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...major left few biographical traces, 2) Major Byron was first written as a Ph.D. thesis, and after two rewritings is still more awkward and pedestrian than even most doctoral dissertations. Yet Dr. Ehrsam sometimes proves himself a shrewder hand than his literary betters in the treacherous field of literary hokum...
...thriller, Stalag 17 chugs along a straight formula route. But it goes at a decent clip, and in its way is quite uncompromising; it never taints its hokum with anything the least bit real. The humor, coming from prisoners rigidly confined to a few acres, is itself rigidly confined to a few topics, most of them supremely physical. But the men themselves, with their gripes and their razzing, form a diverting cross section from a rough-cut Polish-American G.I. to a Back Bay blueblood...
This college draft deferment business reaches the height of nauseating absurdity when one looks at photos of thousands of able bodied young men rushing to avoid serving their country. The hokum that this is "deferment" not exemption, falls apart when one think of that long, long campus project known as graduate studies. How long that may go on is anybody's guess! You get deferred now, you take graduate studies when you finish, and then you are 26. Nice soft life! And how much the effete snobs with white canvas shoes need that elbow rubbing with men of ordinary walk...
Only Actor James (Tobacco Road) Barton emerges with credit; he gives a salty performance as a turkey-raising hermit who befriends the escaped asylum inmate. Scripter-Director E. A. Dupont garnishes the picture's disjointed hokum with meticulous pictorial compositions that serve as hollow reminders of his eminence as a German director (Variety...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger (TIME...