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...founders, the angelic strangeness and beauty of the rescuing plane-a machine apotheosized. Other bits are finely conceived: the aching silence as a gull circles the starved men, its ghastly squeal when it is caught. And there are earnest, dignified performances, notably those of MacMurray, Richard Conte and Lloyd Nolan. Yet it is never quite possible to believe that the oceanic anguish is more than a stone's throw from all the food and drink Hollywood can provide...
...this week Corporal Newman still lived, still grinned faintly as he opened hundreds of letters and telegrams from newspaper readers all over the U.S. Into his flower-banked room walked a ray of hope, one Connie Nolan of Coleman. Tex. Nolan had gone down to 87 pounds at Cabanatuan, was back to 143, was sure Jim Newman could...
...elemental plot of the Nolan family growing up in Williamsburg, there is a great opportunity for characterization at the happy expense of the narrative force which the cinema more often emphasizes. Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson come through with character jobs as Francie and Neeley that without a doubt redeem any of the picture's tedium...
...process of translation, it must be granted, some of the fun and richness of the book are lost. It would be a pleasure to see more of full-blown, man-hungry Aunt Sissy (bountifully played by Joan Blondell); the character of the Nolan mother (Dorothy McGuire) is oversimplified; and such people as the shy policeman suitor of her widowhood (Lloyd Nolan) and her squareheaded little boy (Ted Donaldson) are skimpily noticed...
...tells of the crucial year during which Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner) ceases to be a child. It is a year during which Francie learns that her charming, drunken, incompetent father (James Dunn) may be dearly loved, but not indiscriminately worshipped. She develops, and overcomes, a stony hostility towards her bitter, pennypinching mother. She endures her father's piteous death and-in a bold, overloaded sequence-watches her mother writhe in childbed. Through such experiences, and with the help of a kind teacher, she begins to transmute her weakness for fantasy-building into the tempered imagination of a writer...