Word: letdowns
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...concerted attack and fine defense play, with Nate Corning sparkling in the nets, held down the strong group of individual stars from the Heights. Unless Stan Priddy's squad suffers a letdown, it should have a little less trouble with Rindge...
...general's fight to mend the morale of the group-which takes almost two-thirds of the film-is a self-contained story so absorbingly pictured that some cinemagoers may feel a letdown when there seems nothing left to fight but the Germans. But Director Henry King makes the most of his only combat sequence: a trim, exciting pattern of re-enacted shots intercut with official U.S. and German wartime film...
...before hooraying for playwright Knox, it must be pointed out that too often his "thrills" turn out to be fakes. The "murderer" ringing the doorbell turns out to be only a Western Union boy, etc. The audience feels not only a considerable letdown but also the embarrassing feeling of having been duped. However, the game soon starts all over again, and this time--you're sure--it's in earnest...
...Army boys warmed to the fight. They had brought along a sign which referred to an unfortunate prediction made last week by a Boston sportswriter to the effect that Army would suffer "a psychological letdown...
...Here's the psychological letdown.'--Bill Cunningham...