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...Division infantry sergeant, returns to "Boone City" (Cincinnati) to resume the interrupted pattern of his life with his wife Milly, played by Myrna Loy. Coming back, March takes an airplane ride with Dana Andrews, an AAF captain returning to a Boone City soda fountain, and Harold Russell, an ex-sailor who has a couple of steel hooks where his elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic...
...Meyerstein has doctored Coxere's prose to a point where it is comprehensible, but he has let it retain its near-Biblical simplicity. A good sample is Coxere's account of his coming home, accompanied by an old neighbor, after years at sea, still wearing a Flemish sailor's clothes...
High scorers of the contest were the wearers of number 11 of both teams, Crotty and sailor Bob Schade, a former Southern California freshman player, each with a total of 20 points...
Most notable performance (and the one which best shows off Director Wyler's skill) is given by ex-Paratrooper Harold Russell, 32. Cast as a handicapped sailor named Homer Parrish, Russell actually plays himself. He is no actor and no one pretends that he is, but his performance is more affecting than any professional's could be. Director Wyler merely surrounded Russell with plot and let the cameraman follow the calm, strong, unhandsome Russell face. The audience fills in all the emotion that is needed as the unembarrassed camera studies the two skillfully articulated metal hooks that Russell...
Unreconverted. In Seattle, Sailor Thomas Washington climbed atop a five-story hotel, tore bricks out of the chimney, heaved them down at pedestrians, after 30 minutes of action (no casualties) was captured, explained that he was "sore at civilians...