Word: sequel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood-manufactured sequel to See Here, Private Hargrove, but it happens to be funnier than the original. The war, as it was fought by eager, incompetent Corporal Hargrove (Robert Walker) and cynical con-man Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), bears only a casual scenic resemblance to real war. The France they trudge through is a mythical landscape. But Hargrove and Mulvehill seem far more real than many of the screen's dead-earnest soldier heroes...
Obviously there are two ways to avert an atomic war. One is a voluntary yielding of sovereignty by all nations to a world government. This alternative is impossible in time to check the atomic armaments race which has already begun and which will soon produce its inevitable sequel. The other alternative road to peace is immediate action by the United States, Britain, and Canada to disarm the remaining-world before atomic know-how spreads abroad...
...Bells of St. Mary's (RKO-Radio) is Author-Director-Producer Leo McCarey's Ave-singing sequel to his highly successful and heavily Oscared Going My Way. Bells doesn't ring with quite as true a pitch. Even with Bing Crosby's lackadaisical agility, Bells somehow lacks its predecessor's style and grace. Most important missing ingredient: Barry Fitzgerald. Most important compensations: Ingrid Bergman and a five-year-old friend of McCarey's named Bobby Dolan...
...Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, Author Graves brought the teeming life of Rome in the Claudian Age so vividly alive that the books became bestsellers. In last year's not-so-successful Wife to Mr. Milton, his blend of imagination and scholarship projected his readers into 17th-Century England and the bedchamber temper tantrums of the great blind poet-politician...
...Council had only one purpose: to begin translating the Big Three agreement made in principle at Potsdam into workable, specific understandings. And Potsdam was a sequel of Teheran and Yalta. If the failure at London proved to be permanent, then the Big Three's whole structure of postwar peace-the United Nations Organization, Bretton Woods, etc.-would be doomed to failure. The "one world" of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin would be the world of blocs, East v. West, whose outlines showed nakedly in London. The spectacle alarmed everyone-especially the conferees who refused to assume that the better world...