Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englishman's concern with such minor themes as the Pipit that enabled him to preserve his perspective during the war. This important aspect is conveyed, not in melodramatic buzz-bomb sequences, but in small-town scenes, and indicates the cogency of Rank's approach. The Pipit's sincere saga does more than just muddle through--it scores a tweedy triumph...
...Jews, it was a continuation of the Exodus 1947 saga. All of them had been aboard this ship when it had been rammed, attacked and captured by the British (TIME, July 28) off the Palestine coast. Since then they had lived in the ships' holds, ignoring British orders to leave and French offers of hospitality. The leaders of the refugees declared doggedly: "We wish to go to Palestine. We shall not land in Europe as long as we are alive...
Eddie Cantor finally made the grade, though he was bringing up the rear. Coming: another biographical cinema saga-this one about the life of Eddie Cantor...
...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clowned their way through a screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga: 1. The Egg and I. 4. We Took to the Hills...
Gunther starts his zip-clip saga in California, the Golden State ("ripe, golden, yeasty"), swings a great northeasterly arc across the Middle West to the Atlantic, drops south into the Cotton Belt, winds up down Texas-New Mexico-Arizona way, scattering his judgments as he goes. Samples...