Word: scarecrows
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...observed a grave, placarded with a small square wooden sign on which was a cross and the words, "Hier Ruhen Soldaten USA" (Here lie soldiers of the U.S.A.). A few yards farther on we saw a big cross with a German helmet stuck on it like a scarecrow...
...elsewhere and wait? Leave your laundry here." ... Maybe I should be a little kinder to the laundrymen hereabouts for now they are nice enough to send me my buttons back ... Does your Dad need a former khaki shirt now a stop-light red for his V Garden scarecrow? ... I could let him have the one I just got back real cheap. I don't know when I could wear it unless I began selling cocoa coals on street corners...
...Hecht story concerns a tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell...
...dream-a show that telescopes parts for nine stars and five dramatic episodes in one over-all picture. The only continuity is provided by a tail coat which appears in each episode in a hand-me-down career from the shoulders of a rich wastrel to a scarecrow...
Good shot: to frighten some unruly concentration campers laboring in a field, the Nazi guard takes a pot shot at a nearby scarecrow; as he turns away, blood trickles down the scarecrow's hand...