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...Front (Universal-International) tries to bring to life Stars and Stripes Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed, long-suffering dogfaces, Willie and Joe, who gave World War II G.I.s a tartly humorous reflection of their own hardships, gripes and frustrations...
...Front tops off the home front. Bill Mauldin's war cartoons are animated with David Wayne and Tom Ewell as Joe and Willie, at Loew's State, Broadway and 45th; and show is reputed to be almost as funny as the original drawings. Jose Ferrer moves lock, stock, and nose from the Bijou next door to the Golden on Wednesday in Cyrano de Bargerac; all seats are reserved...
Stealing a march on his bigger rivals, Independent Producer Robert Lippert has already issued The Steel Helmet, the first movie based on the Korean fighting. Though it features a strikingly Mauldin-like performance by Newcomer Gene Evans as a battered infantryman, the film constantly betrays its quickie origin, leaves the field wide open to such forthcoming pictures as RKO's The Korean Story, Eagle Lion Classics' Korea Patrol, Columbia's A Yank in Korea. Also on the way, celebrating other wars and warriors: MGM's Go for Broke, Paramount's The Submarine Story, 20th Century...
...Chosen Ones, men who resent standing in line to buy a coffee at the Bick, it will be the worst does you'll ever have to choke down. The life of the dogfact may be amusing in a Bill Mauldin cartoon, but, Buster, show me the Patriotic Young American who would trade a Beauty-rest and a blonde for a hole in the ground...
...plot. There is no special hero; Narrator Considine is just a member of one squad who Jived to tell the story. But there is tension, excitement and the imminence of death that needs no assist from tricks of fiction. The result is a blend as true as Bill Mauldin's best drawings and Ernie Pyle's best dispatches...