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...stop Sir Oswald; not until May 1940 did total war make Britain curtail its traditional totally free speech. Then, without trial and for the safety of the kingdom, Sir Oswald and his ardently sympathetic wife, Lady Mosley, were locked up. Since then, he has been a privileged prisoner. In Holloway Prison (for women) he had his wife's company, a four-room apartment, other prisoners for charwomen, medical attendance and permission to visit London doctors after he fell ill of phlebitis (inflammation of the veins...
Said quiet Sergeant Benko, grey-haired at 32: "I never worked that turret so fast before." His quick shooting brought his total score to 16 Jap planes, three more than Colonel Bruce Holloway's, ranking ace of the Fourteenth Air Force. It also made him top gun among all aerial gunners in the A.A.F...
When it comes to being obnoxious, he's overshadowed by everyone else in the cast. First of all, there's Sterling Holloway. Holloway looks, acts, and grovels like a local vice-president of the Cretin's Union, who models strait-jackets in his spare time. After him comes Felix Bressart, who is probably a nice fellow to his own friends, but then who wants to bother with those missing links? Bressart, lovable chap that he is, divides his time between kicking Holloway around and trying to marry his own daughter off to the local herring czar...
...disgusting, since all she screams for is for Sister Sonia to marry someone so she can sink her hooks into a high-voiced young Icelander who looks like something the WAACS would probably be glad to have. Of course, both of them gallop over the worn visage of poor Holloway...
...picture's star, Sonia Henie, Hollywood's biggest bid for mercy killing. Within the course of an evening, Miss Henie stands up her date, necks with a Marine she's picked up, convinces her family she's engaged to him, scares the daylights out of the poor fellow, kicks Holloway in the face--what did you expect? --lies to the preacher, then tells her family she's married, then tells them she was only kidding, and so on--far into the night...