Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
...casting of Flynn in the role of Soames and of Young in the part of Bossiney hurt this film before the first reel was shot. Flynn is not equipped to portray a stodgy, meticulous Englishman; and Young was hopelessly awkward as the eccentric, dynamic architect. Little wonder that Miss Garson couldn't warm up to her task opposite two such misfits. Only Pidgeon, who played Young Jolyon, carried out his assignment satisfactorily. But he appeared too seldom to redeem the incongruity of the other characters...
...Reel quotes an Army lawyer's comment : "Under such a principle, I suppose, even MacArthur should be tried." . Objection. A military commission of five U.S. generals* sat in judgment on Yamashita. They had no legal background. The commission seemed to feel that defense objections, made for the record, wasted time and smacked of insubordination. Once, in a smiling but meaning aside to Reel, one of the general-judges remarked: "You fellows should talk to us, not to the record. You'll get along better...
Defense continued to talk both to the judges and the record. One of Yamashita's aides, whose English was limited, became sorely puzzled. "Who is this Mr. Jackson that Captain Reel is always talking about? He always jumps up and says, 'Jackson.' " When the Americans realized that "Jackson" was the Japanese's understanding of "objection," they told him that Jackson's last name was "Notsustained...
...SCAP has not seen enough of "the sober afterglow" to let the Japanese read Reel's The Case of General Yamashita...