Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur's occupation force (including General Joseph Stilwell's southern Korea force) would number only about 300,000 combat troops. The Japs had ten times as many armed forces in the home islands, even more coming home...
...wartime Government of Premier Josef Franz Hoop, rocklike conservative, had dutifully resigned. Named new Premier last week was Dr. Alexander Frick, rocklike conservative. His program: extended socialization. In his clifftop castle Prince Francis Joseph II approved the switch...
...carried on the business of his Government. He approved arrangements for the formal surrender of Japanese forces in China, to take place this week at Nanking. He appointed an old Kuomintang crony, General Hsiung Shih-hui, to take over Manchuria from the Red Army. He exchanged felicitations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the ratification of the new Sino-Russian treaty...
...plot machinery starts whirring when Alan Quinton (Joseph Gotten) writes love letters for a casually wolfish friend, and falls in love with the recipient (Jennifer Jones). After that, all hell breaks loose. The girl, in love with the letters, marries the man she thinks has written them; the husband is murdered. The girl, suspected of the murder, comes down with acute amnesia. Alan realizes that his own deceit has brought on the murder and the woe, and that if the girl recovers her memory, she will probably lose her mind. Despite all these causes for alarm, he marries her. Sure...
Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...