Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This story, which is not materially changed from Anna Seghers' best-selling novel of the same title (TIME, Sept. 28, 1942), had the makings of one of the finest of anti-Fascist moving pictures. It has become, instead, two hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably...
...artistically silhouetted reeds, which belongs, if anywhere, in Coronet. Heisler's exhaustion, fear and mistrust are merely stage props, never a living agony of nerves and soul. Tracy himself, careful and sincere and able as he is, is wrong for the role. By strong implication in the novel, George Heisler was a dramatically and morally fascinating species of human being, typical of 20th-century Europe if unfamiliar in the U.S.-a seasoned and astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except for his distaste for Naziism; so are his friends...
Bald, icy-eyed Columnist Strunsky is the kind of newspaperman about whom no hit play or best-selling novel is likely to be written. He has never picked a lovenest lock, swiped a picture from a new widow, or solved a murder. Born in Russia and schooled in New York City from P.S. 77 through Columbia, he went to work as an editor of the New International Encyclopedia in 1900, aged 21. After six years he shifted to editorial writing for the New York Post, became its editor in 1920, moved on to the Times...
...When I got home Manhattan didn't seem real. The first few days it was swell. People fell all over me. Where you been? China. Tell us about it. I did. But they didn't want to hear what men have to endure. They wanted dime-novel stories of adventure. They didn't understand what I was trying to say. I couldn't get through to them. They hadn't seen it. It hadn't touched them...
Author Charles Christian Wertenbaker, 44, is chief military correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Shrewd, affable, tweedy "Wert," a seasoned reporter and able writer whose previous books have ranged from Boojum (a college novel) to A New Doctrine for the Americas, went to England in March, spent the three months before D-day diligently acquainting himself with Allied leaders, men and material. He gives full marks to General Eisenhower, but his particular heroes are Lieut. Generals Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, the planner, and Omar Bradley, the U.S.' field commander...