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Most of the talk about integration comes from this side of the Atlantic. Such talk is based on a desire to make the European economy look like the American, since the American is obviously functioning better. Europe's several, small, semi-isolated markets a pall the American businessman, who bases his output on a large, nation-wide market. Each European country fosters its own firms in most phases of production. The result is many small, high-cost plants throughout Europe instead of a few large, low-cost plants. Since the several small plants are usually protected from competition by cartels...
...forced breakup and final reunion of-families gives the movie an emotional core that is undeniably affecting. But tearful farewells can pall when protracted and repeated as they are in this script, and Director Negulesco's treatment of emotional scenes, notably at the picture's end, is so contrived to wring the last tear from the audience that it comes perilously close to cheapening them...
...such Godfearing models as Dante's Inferno but has much in common with the Godless statism of George Orwell's 1084; 2) the real British middle-class world of John Wallis seen through numerous flashbacks. Neither exploration is wholly successful. Wallis' purgatory, with its concentration-camp pall and forced pleasure-resort atmosphere is skillfully but too obviously contrived. Wallis' real-life experience, with its high quota of banal woman trouble, comes close to being boring...
...fact is that the Kaye routines are suffering from old age. The patter songs are not what they used to be, the special quality of this original actor is beginning to pall on audiences that have seen him before. He is no longer a bombshell...
Then Norman Thomas' Socialism began to pall. Field decided it was time to get up in the vanguard of the proletarian revolution. Whether he became a Communist card holder or not, he acted and talked like one, throwing himself with furious concentration into Communist activities...