Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the film lacks in mystery it makes up in other ways, particularly the performance of Jean Simmons, who gives a fascinating exhibition of mid-Victorian beauty and charm. The Rank Studios seem to have hit on a laudable policy of casting first-rate actors in supporting roles. This, together with the skillful contrast between the mystery and the gay exposition background, add considerably to the film's quality...
...French battalion is commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a short, bespectacled Foreign Legion veteran who gave up his major general's rank to fight in Korea. Monclar allows his men, and General MacArthur, to address him as "man General," but in official acts he is a lieutenant colonel. Said Chiles: "I can't make him walk on my right as a general should. He says to me: 'You are the regimental commander. I command a battalion. I walk on the left.' And he does...
This shrewd policy, enabling them to strike while the ticket is hot, points up the arrival of Cy Feuer, 40, and Ernest H. Martin, 31, in the first rank of theatrical producers. Feuer, who once headed a movie studio's music department, and Martin, a onetime radio executive, have now produced two shows, and both turned out to be hits. They launched their partnership by starring Ray Bolger in 1948's Where's Charley? (792 performances), which is currently enjoying a profitable return engagement...
...local mill-owning Klan bigwig (Hugh Sanders) is pictured as a cynical racketeer fattening on the dues and fees of an ignorant rank & file. In the movie's best performance, Actor Cochran, bullying and toadying by turn, creates a picture of an ugly, slack-witted Klansman. Storm Warning hits hard at these characters. By knowing when to feint as well as when to punch, the picture loses no excitement, gains a chance to make its message connect where it will do the most good...
...retreat. At Wonju in January, the 23rd hung on. At Chipyong last week, Freeman and his men held down the hot corner again. With them was a tough French battalion commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a Foreign Legion veteran who had given up his general's rank to take his men to Korea...