Word: inept
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...German doctor, living illegally in France. He calls himself Ravic, but that is only one of his assumed names. Once a famous surgeon, Ravic cannot practice in France (he has no license). He lives by substituting unethically at surgical operations for two French doctors, one too old and inept, the other not a surgeon. The patients never see Ravic, who is present only while they are under anesthetic...
...only way of selling the rest, FLC hopes to induce foreign nations to borrow from the U.S., use the money to buy surpluses. So far, no nation has shown any signs of wanting such loans. Thanks to the inept Surplus Property Act of 1944, they are well aware that the U.S. is in no position to haggle. The act bans the shipment of goods back to the U.S. for resale, lest such goods compete with private industry. So the goods must stay where they are. Ironically, the U.S. cannot even ship home its steamrollers & bulldozers (see cut) rusting away...
Director William Dieterle has frankly set out to pull the customers' heart strings like so much taffy. This time his expert hand has slipped. His craftsmanship is submerged in an inept script. Even Claude Rains, generally a likable and competent actor, has script trouble. Referred to throughout the film as a wise and witty caricaturist, Mr. Rains's caricatures look worse than mediocre, and he has been given nothing either wise or witty...
...this aura of affability, a fumbling, inept experiment ended...
...surplus consumer goods will be made through the War Assets Corp., a Reconstruction Finance Corp. subsidiary. The shift, from the Department of Commerce, was made at the request of Henry Agard Wallace. Thus he neatly sidestepped the storm over bungling in the disposal of surplus property due chiefly to inept legislation...