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Beachhead to Berlin (U.S. Coast Guard; Warner). This two-reel Coast Guard film lacks the sustained high cinematic level and intensity of the best U.S. war films. But it contains scenes which show D-day in a tragic splendor which no other film has caught so well. The best of these shots give the event something of its scope and meaning against the.even greater scope and meaning of nature, for they catch (in color) the conclave of great ships and the deadly surge shoreward of landing craft under fire, among the all but unbelievable lights and tints...
Tokyo Rose, slangy, honey-voiced Japanese radio propagandist, down to her last half-dozen badly scratched, pre-Pearl Harbor phonograph records, evoked the aid of the Miami Rod & Reel Club, which appropriated $500 to supply her with fresh discs-through neutral channels "or by bomber over Tokyo...
Composer Schönberg's music, as usual, sounded to the uninitiated as if the Philharmonic were methodically playing the Chicken Reel, a Bach Toccata and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean all at once and in different keys. Nobody doubted that Hitler richly deserved...
...original picture bore out, in some eleven reels, this bitter preface. After being dubiously received at a sneak preview it was drastically cut, by Sturges, according to the desires of his employers. In its present mutilated nine-reel state, the picture will probably do its best service if it interests cinemaddicts in reading the book on which it is based...
...last reel, Cornelia and her mastodan are quite chummy, though no one in the audience is told what, if any, their future plans may be. But, as we have said before, no one really cares very much anyway...