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...picture was flung together in the U.S. with the blessing of the National Council for American Soviet Friendship. A flatulent commentary with lines like "Fly, you banners-there is no wind strong enough to blow you down" is ping-ponged between Blues-Singer Libby Holman and mopey Actor Morris Carnovsky. The famous suspense with which Director Sergei Eisenstein prefaced the battle in Alexander Nevsky has been unmercifully hacked when half a minute of editorial discretion would have kept it whole, and the excellent battle music which Prokofieff contrived for that sequence becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...MOPEY DICK?Another gang picture. Don Juan Barrymore and profile in the leads. Remainder of cast could be arrested for non-support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hullabaloo | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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