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Not only was Eisenhower's luncheon date with Darlan a tantamount acknowledgment of the new setup, but he gave it further weight by a public statement: "All Frenchmen worthy of their country's great past have forgotten their small differences of ideas." To Darlan, who still maintains the...
The difference lies in the small scale of the entire piece. The characters are relatively few, the scenes simple, the action consistently underplayed. The touches which strike the American audience are the little ones--the close-up of Von Stroheim's gloved fist as his French friend, and prisoner, dies...
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) is one of the least kinetic and one of the most absorbing of cinema's innumerable treatments of the World War. Concerned not with fighting but with respite from fighting, it investigates a group of French inmates of a German prison camp. The prisoners-principally...
Many war pictures have dwelt, for purposes of irony, on the small gallantries of modern armed conflict. Grand Illusion does the same thing, but for a different reason. This time the monstrous irony is war itself rather than the lie de Boeldieu tells to save his friends, the flower that...
The Medal is awarded annually as a prize, established in 1918 by the Comite France Amerique of Paris, to the successful contestant in a declamation on a subject drawn from the history of French civilization. PROGRAM La France of les Methoties Industrielles Americaines S. B. Archer '31 L Initiative de...