Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago Tokyo's Shimbun ran a brief review of The Case of General Yamashita (The University of Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...
Enough Japanese editors had read Reel's book (it was sent to them by the U.S. publishers) to assure that some day, when the Occupation withdrew, it would emerge from censorship. Then, instead of heightening respect for American good faith and readiness to acknowledge a wrong, The Case of General Yamashita might engender a bitter disillusion...
...Reel's book should be much more the concern of American readers than Japanese. Two months after publication, it has sold only 2,100 copies. Yet it is a classic of its kind, a superbly presented, toughly argued, dramatic and damning report on American justice in a case of fundamental importance...
...earlier, voiceless appearances, Lloyd retains throughout "Movie Crazy" the pristine simplicity of mind, uncomplicated by thought or experience which, with face to match, always puts him on the top by the last reel...
...little escapade plunges the young people into a pretty kettle of fishy dilemmas and New England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry Hull's rich mint-julep accent served up as a deep-dish Yankee drawl...