Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best guess as to the identity of Der Snag was that he was a onetime Viennese journalist named Ernst Fischer. Russian circles in London also guessed that Foreign Vice Commissar Soloman Abramovich Lozovsky, who speaks perfect German and likes a little joke, slipped a word in now and then. The Nazis tried to jam out the voice, but succeeded only in jamming out their own broadcast. One night they put three news broadcasters on the air, one following another without pause so as to thwart the Red radio. They talked so fast that nobody understood a word they said...
...thundering guns, the pounding cavalry, the shouts of the victorious rebel army." It never came. The Second Invasion. Instead, McClellan came to whip the shattered army into shape, to snub Lincoln, drive out Scott, feud with Stanton, end up in the Chickahominy swamps with thousands of his perfect army dead. New hordes invaded Washington: contractors, inventors, émigrés, cranks...
...Jordan is not a perfectly conceived fantasy. At times it sacrifices credulity and its own premises for the sake of the plot. But it is so filled with good things that all concerned can take a bow for fashioning one of the most singular and comic comedies ever to come out of Hollywood. It molds farce and fantasy into a story that is not only witty but wise. A directorial triumph for Alexander Hall, it is a springboard for two practically perfect performances by Actors Montgomery and Gleason...
...true that Americans and Englishmen, generally, find difficulty in mastering foreign languages, but, even if they fail to acquire a perfect accent, or misspell an occasional word, this does not constitute an insult or offense to the natives of the country, as Mr. Mallison apparently considers...
...Dick and Harry is a hilarious and nearly perfect vehicle for the Miss Rogers' Tillie-the-Toiler talents. But much credit belongs to the artful direction of balding, hawk-faced Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother, My Favorite Wife), who never lets go the reins until the horse is in the barn. Another Hollywood youngster (26), Paul Jarrico, is author of the story and the script. Private Kanin, now 28 and in the U.S. Army, says: "Anybody can direct a good picture if he's got a good script...