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Burgess Meredith does all the talking in "Forgotten Village," but the camera is the hero. It shies at nothing, going even farther than the Russians' recent "Rainbow" in showing the agony of a woman in primitive childbirth. Generally when Hollywood runs down to Mexico to make a movie, it leaves out all the flies and filth; "Forgotten Village" is full of both...
...Rainbow," the siutation of German occupation that has been tackled by our own studies is treated by the Russians with a force that superior technical resources have failed to reach. The movie is full of the invective and vitriol that current Russian art, in all forms, is expressing. In American interpretations, the stark brutality of the German (in "The Rainbow" they shoot ten - year - old boys, torture pregnant women, and hang a Russian to every icy telephone pole) is never so bitterly approached. In this movie is concentrated the basic source of the European attitude toward the Nazis...
While "The Rainbow" lauds the resistance of the Russian partisans, a shorter co-feature, "Leningrad Music Hall," points to Soviet efforts and artistic successes in peacetime life. While it is pretty well chopped up, the picture has many intervals of greatness; its artistic appeal is universal, and avoids the language barrier necessarily present to some extent in "The Rainbow...
...around Wanting, on the old Burma Road, were Allied troops in close contact with the retiring foe. To the British, who had been driving on Akyab for two dreary years, the disease-ridden town at the mouth of the Arakan River seemed like something at the end of a rainbow. Now they were within sight of it, and in position to contain...
...heady smell of horses, leather, manure and stable antiseptics has fortified many a gypsy horse owner and trainer against the stress of staying half a jump ahead of the sheriff. Often as not there is no rainbow at the end of the trail. For little Jean Charles ("Frenchy") Pinon there was-after 13 threadbare years...