Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunt (20th Century-Fox) opens quite pastorally somewhere in the mountains of Bavaria. Through this silent, forested wilderness slips a renowned English big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon). At the edge of a ravine he shrouds himself in shrubbery, peers across and spots his quarry. With meticulous care he fits a telescopic sight to his handsome sporting rifle, sets it for 550 yards, notes the wind drift, draws a cautious bead, and smiles a hunter's smile. Caught full in the sight is the left breast of the world's most wary and unstalkable animal: Adolf Hitler...
Behind this agitation was a rising awareness of air power's decisive part in World War II. Had not the German Luftwaffe conquered Crete? Had not British torpedo planes nabbed the German Bismarck, laid her low for the kill? Did not another British torpedo plane last week hunt down a Nazi pocket battleship, send her limping home (see p. 44)? And did not all these facts add up to the conclusion that the U.S. ought to copy Great Britain's independent R.A.F., the Nazi Luftwaffe, and turn its air power over to independent, unfettered airmen? Most Congressmen...
...keen. In its determination to catch the fat prize, the Royal Navy took a long risk - neglected convoys, deserted Gibraltar, sent out the Home Fleet, left Britain's normal supply lines and normal defenses almost naked of ships. Over 100 vessels were said to be involved in the hunt...
Making arrangements for the affair is a seven man committee headed by McGann. Other Seniors on the committee are Lawrence E. Shulman, A. Ellis Hunt, Jr., H. Gray Hutchinsee, John B. McGann, Russell N. Fairbanks, and Robert G. Paine...
...little tale of psychological melodrama it is. For Mr. Parker comes out in the open with melodrama that is above-board and does not hesitate to beat its chest. This is the story of an ugly party named Bert Coonrod who shoots one of his companions on a deer hunt not quite for the sheer pleasure of shooting him. Mr. Parker could do without the sections of italicized rumination of which he seems fond, and if he were handling other material, we should expect him to solve his problem more satisfactorily than he does here. If melodrama is not given...