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Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount), the newest cinematic caprice from Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), beats a satirical tattoo on the American small town. But it tells a story so touching, so chock-full of human frailties and so rich in homely detail that it achieves a reality transcending the limitations of its familiar slapstick...
Take It Or Leave It (20th Century-Fox) is easy to take as light summer's entertainment. Seaman Eddie Collins (Edward Ryan) returns to Brooklyn and his lovely and expectant wife Kate (Marjorie Massow). For her confinement she wants the services of eminent Dr. Preston, whose fee is $1,000 and who has no time for the case anyway. Determined to by pass these difficulties, the expectant couple go to a broadcast of Phil Baker's Take It Or Leave It program. Eddie succeeds in answering not one but six $64 questions in the breathless interval before Kate...
...Niland, a stout, calm woman who is "Stumpy" to her four boys, signed the messenger's pad, opened the telegram. It was from Adjutant General Ulio, and it read: "The Secretary of War desires that I tender his deep sympathy to you on the loss of your son Preston...
...hands trembled. Lieut. Preston Niland, missing since June 7 in the Normandy invasion, was only one of her soldier sons on the Army's casualty list. Still carried as missing were sons Edward (a bomber gunner in Burma) and Robert (a sergeant with the paratroopers in Normandy...
...story of Touhy & Co. (Preston Foster, Victor McLaglen et al.) follows, fairly closely, the story of the original "Terrible" Touhy's last days at large. There are exciting bits in the film, and sharp ones, the cynically mumbled administration of an oath in court; the horrible kicking around of a lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against...