Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefits from excellent acting and a couple of well-done, anti-prejudicial speeches by Robert the First. These things make the picture novel and worth-while entertainment, but its producers could actually have gone much further with the social idea and left out some of the unnecessary, dramatic flairs. Minor complications arise at the outset for the audience and the detective when a harmless soldier, who is first suspected of the crime, bemoans the absence of his wife. He eventually ends up very happily with her, to the greater glory of the institution of marriage and the lesser glory...
This kind of runaway lingo often leads Historian Allen into exaggerations. Where a few casualties were inflicted on a German combat patrol, Allen recalls that they were "mowed down." A minor attack became a powerful counterattack, prisoners are credited to the wrong division and the negotiated surrender of a distant enemy division is described as if the enemy troops laid down their arms at the mere sight of Patton...
...accent. Some of the ugliest comments were spoken in ripe, raucous Brooklynese. Even some owners in the low-paying Negro leagues protested against "raiding" their men. There had been Negroes in big-league ball before, but they had been careful to identify themselves as Indians or "Cubans." The late Minor League President Bill Bramham cried: "Father Divine will have to look to his laurels, for we can expect Rickey Temple to be in the course of construction in Harlem soon." Rickey, ignoring the uproar, treated Jackie "white," giving him a year's seasoning in the minors. The four other...
...much of the real blood, bone and brain of Hollywood, the situation is far from funny. The trades have been full of stories about wholesale firings; panicky studios have cut salaries of office slaveys and minor employees. Big stars, on the other hand, can demand, and get, better prices than ever; for big names are still the best box-office insurance...
...Daves knows how to break players effectively out of type (Agnes Moorehead, who usually plays embittered spinsters, does handsomely in a sexy role). The picture is greatly enriched through minor characters and minor incidents. As added frights, the doctor and the crook are such well-conceived, well-played parts that they practically steal the show. And just as Bogart is about ready to try for his final getaway, the question of whether two cops in a bus terminal are oblivious of him or waiting for him adds a realistic kind of suspense that is too seldom used in movies. This...