Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a tough fight. It would be rugged until the last Jap was off Los Negros. But the main objectives had been captured. Momote airfield, swiftly taken, had been rehabilitated and U.S. fighter craft were operating from its strip in support of forward units. Jap shore batteries on nearby Manus Island had been silenced by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's navy and supply-burdened LSTs were unloading without enemy interference. One of the first Navy shipments: fresh beef to supplement the Army's K-rations...
...destroyers swung broadside to the low-lying coast and sounded a compelling reveille with the barking of their 5-in. guns. Boats crowded with green-clad men crawled like bugs toward the shore. This was no landing on an enemy beach saturated by bombardment; success this time depended on surprise...
...Hollywood last fortnight the bloodhounds were baying at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's heels. Bounding from ice cake to ice cake, the harassed studio finally made the Ohio shore, stopped only long enough to drop its baby in the river...
Danny Kaye, an elevator boy in a medical center, is also a one-man museum of imaginary maladies. He is wooed by redheaded Nurse Dinah Shore, whom he does not love, woos blond Nurse Constance Dowling, who loves his roommate. He does an uproarious rib of a Western musical, taking all parts, including that of the usher who keeps saying: "There will be a short wait for seats." Then Danny is drafted. En route to the South Pacific he sings the rapid-fire Melody in 4-F with the cold frenzy which only Danny Kaye can give it. Later...
Barring a few lapses of taste, Up In Arms is fun to watch, good to look at. Dinah Shore puts a lot of warmth into her characterization, a lot of heat into the songs Now I Know, Tess' Torch Song. But the heart, liver & lights of this cinemusical is Danny Kaye (of Broadway's Lady in the Dark and Let's Face It), making his screen debut. Kaye's mimicry, patter and general daftness are as deft as a surgeon's incision...