Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvey Girls (MGM) is a Technicolored musical celebrating the coming of chastity, clean silverware and crumbless tablecloths to the pioneer Southwest. The bearers of this culture, according to evidence presented here, were waitresses brought out from the East and Midwest 50-odd years ago to staff the Fred Harvey system of depot lunchrooms. As history, this thesis might astonish even the late Mr. Harvey. As light-horse-opera, complete with cowboys, Indians, a rattlesnake, a railroad and Judy Garland in leg-of-mutton sleeves, it has its points...
...Happened at the Inn (MGM International) is the first French movie made during the war to be shown in the U.S. A fantastic, melodramatic little comedy about a French provincial family named Goupi, the film hints broadly that beneath its sparkling surface lies an allegory. Just what the allegory is never becomes clear. But It Happened at the Inn is funny-in a subtler way than its American counterpart, You Can't Take It with You. The Goupis are a family of ferocious, mildly balmy individualists who squabble incessantly among themselves but present a miraculously united front...
Portrait of Maria (MGM International) is a Mexican-made film with an English sound track dubbed in. It thus reverses the traditional practice of dubbing Spanish into Hollywood films so that Spanish-speaking movie audiences will get the impression that Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, et al. are speaking idiomatic Spanish. U.S. cinemaddicts will not be surprised to hear Maria's heroine (Delores Del Rio) speaking English, but they will note that the sound track doesn't quite match the Del Rio lips-or even the Del Rio voice...
...MGM) is a Hollywood-manufactured sequel to See Here, Private Hargrove, but it happens to be funnier than the original. The war, as it was fought by eager, incompetent Corporal Hargrove (Robert Walker) and cynical con-man Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), bears only a casual scenic resemblance to real war. The France they trudge through is a mythical landscape. But Hargrove and Mulvehill seem far more real than many of the screen's dead-earnest soldier heroes...
They Were Expendable (MGM) is an adaptation of William L. White's best-selling war book of 1942. On the screen it is a leisurely story of how the small PT boats put up a big fight around the Philippine Islands. The fight is carried on by a squadron of heroes skippered by smooth, hard-hitting Lieut. Robert Montgomery* and rough, romantic Lieut, (j.g.) John Wayne. Captain John Ford, who produced and directed the picture, allowed his men to be much more natural than most Hollywood heroes, kept his music low, achieved a feeling of reality rare...