Word: ingram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...
...cast is high praise. Even the extras, for once, look like soldiers. Reason: they are soldiers who were training at Camp Young, Calif., near which the picture was made. Other members of the cast notable for their light, incisive realism are Kurt Krueger as the cold Nazi ace, Rex Ingram as the dignified Sudanese, John Wengraf as a treacherous Nazi major, Richard Nugent as a British doctor, Carl Harbord as an English ex-typesetter who likes poetry. Even more gratifying is J. Carrol Naish as the innocent, bewildered Italian prisoner, shooting the works in an entirely new kind of part...
...order of the pink heart has been voted unanimously to Jack Ingram for sustaining the first major wound of the battle of Harvard Square. Others have suffered fractured bones and various versions of lumbago, but these ailments are not of a permanent nature. There's no redeeming a front tooth lost in a touch football game. Jack's only satisfaction lies in showing the boys what a perfect specimen it is, as it sparkles in solitary pearliness--in the palm of his hand...
Probably the best presentation of the Summer Theater this season, "The Emperor Jones" nevertheless contains a number of flaws which remain to be smoothed out. Rex Ingram was definitely good, a though his laugh resurrects disconcerting images of Lucle Lucifer, Jr. of "The Cabin in the Sky," William Mendrek, although acceptable in a mediocre sort of way, has done much better with cockney accents in past presentations...
Another variation from stage directions was the dance of the witch doctor in the final scene. Rather than Mrs. Ingram's unorthodox rendition; it should have been slow and ceremonial...