Word: rehashed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Culver kid, John Payne, he turns around and makes mincemeat out of them, and it takes Pearl Harbor at the end of the picture to interest him in the glories of the life of a Marine. What should have been the thriller of the year develops into a rehash of Frank Merriwell, tame enough for Grandma, too trite for anyone else...
...International Squadron," the second feature on the bill, has some scenes from "Blitzkrieg im Westen," a few airplane action shots of its own, and a pointless love story. The result is a spotty rehash of "A Yank in the R.A.F.," better in some of its air-raid sequences but an inferior job in general. Right now, those bombs don't look fictitious enough...
...Hellfire") Lanson's mountainous egoism crushed hers like a mouse. A good-looking, powerful, self-educated fellow-Swinburne was his favorite poet; Nietzsche was his god-Ed's flood of talk was mostly a lurid rehash of his reading. Ellen was too ignorant even to understand much of it, but it fascinated her. Ed was a good salesman, but he hated to kowtow to people, tossed up one job after another. He liked to stay away from home, living in hotels and boardinghouses...
...Meet John Doe" is a rehash of what Frank Capra has been doing for years. The plot is slightly different, and the characters have different names. But the same people do the same sort of things, and the same Capra hand can be felt behind all the scenes, delivering the same message of love thy neighbor...
...because the narrative is a series of flashback recollections of Lady Hamilton, reclining in prison during her alcoholic dotage, its ponderous plodding can be attributed to the senility of the narrator. All Lady Hamilton offers in her two-hour tale is an extravagant picture of court finery, a romantic rehash of the exploits of the British fleet under Nelson, a fuzzy sketch of Nelson himself, a dazzling portrait of her own staggering beauty. There is no more feeling of life than in a billboard...