Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wasted is the word for the performances of Joseph Cotton, Ginger Rogers, and Spring Byington in this motion picture. Miss Byington is perfect as the understanding mother of, unfortunately, Miss Temple; Miss Rogers pertrays an extremely difficult role, with great skill, although one begins to have difficulty imagining her as twentyish. Cotten has perhaps the only worthwhile scene in the film: a five-minute psychoneurotic's battle with himself for control of his mind, and he does it with unbelievable dignity and power...
...sunrise our planes came over, dropped paratroops and engaged our guards. The guerrillas also attacked, and during the fighting our tanks drove in through our prison walls. We were hurried into these tanks and started out. It was a wonderful sight to see this string of 70 tanks in perfect formation traveling steadily toward freedom through the water. "Imagine 150 American boys rescuing and transporting over 2,000 prisoners out of a territory surrounded by 6,000 Japs. We left behind us many graves filled with starved internees. . . . "Our Army men and officers certainly are angels. . . . Oh! how wonderful...
...Rhode Island's Camp Endicott, Jim ("Iron Mike") Rafferty ended a perfect, ten-race season (including three wins over Sweden's Gunder Hagg) by winning the three-quarter-mile special. He watched bespectacled Haakon Lidman jack up Sweden's sagging track reputation by lowering the 15.8 world record for the 110-meter high hurdles by 1.4 seconds...
...rather like Maude Adams, in fact-than as Robert Young's extensive improvement on the original, that is only because a gentle soul shines brighter than anything the Max Factory can contrive. Robert Young, as the disfigured veteran, combines his genuine manliness and sympathy with stylized sentimentality in perfect proportions; and Makeup Artist Maurice Stedman helps him give his uglier moments a pathos at once living and restrained. Herbert Marshall as the blind musician (Mr. Marshall is certainly Hollywood's No. 1 Man Next Door) and Mildred Natwick as the clairvoyant do their hammy tasks well and from...
...love affair and a widow (Katharine Hepburn) who got frozen by the termination of a good marriage. Without love, they get along so well as they work together on the scientist's high-altitude oxygen mask that they decide to marry. Without love, marriage, too, looks like a perfect setup-for a while...