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...remarkable honesty and excellence, honor goes to the Army; to Major John Huston, who directed it and who wrote and speaks its splendid narrative; and to the six cameramen under his command...
Time & again Huston led his men into no man's land hours ahead of an attack (once they were caught for hours in cross fire) ; constantly, he caromed from man to man of his small crew, guiding them to the best positions, the best shots. Day & night at odd moments during the fighting, Huston shaped and reshaped his scenario, and wrote his narration...
...Huston's treatment of a dead German, his blond hair blowing gently, and of the 700-year-old, shattered little town and its inhabitants, is no less devoted to human meaning. As he shows them, old men. women and children, draining townward out of their hill caves, clambering bewildered among their demolished homes. or being extracted from under the rubble of a late-exploding mine or trap, war takes on great and complex meanings. And in one long passage, free of comment, while the screen multiplies the Etruscan...
...Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...