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...Major John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro, most humane, most moving, most nearly perfect of war pictures documentaries...
...There Be Light, Major Huston's newly finished film about the treatment and cure of psychoneurotic war casualties...
...happily with Greer Garson (see cut), gently ribbed the industry for "romanticizing us into a nation of scarlet-coated Mounties who are concerned impartially with getting their men and pursuing their women." He pointed out that it had taken Canadian actors to portray U.S. Presidents on the screen (Walter Huston and Raymond Massey as Lincoln, Alexander Knox as Wilson...
...write but to rewrite a new book for Anything Goes, which subsequently became an Ethel Merman smash hit. After two more musicomedy successes, they pined for words without music, set about dramatizing Life With Father. The script aroused so little enthusiasm that Alfred Lunt, Roland Young, Walter Huston all turned down the title role. Lindsay himself finally took the part...
...good, glossy cinema without much excitement. In the halting, early stages it seems as if ten-or even five-corpses are going to be too many for one feature-length film. But as soon as the cast is thinned down to working consistency, three expert craftsmen-Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Roland Young, as splendid old scoundrels-are given a chance to peer, leer and sneer it up for all they are worth. With Louis Hayward and June Duprez to add youth & beauty, the last five survivors manage to make a mildly interesting stretch run for the finish...