Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land of Cockaigne, a kind of 16th Century Big Rock Candy Mountain, were as timeless as meat & potatoes. The inscription which was printed beneath that engraving merely hinted at the edible delights spread out in the picture. It read: "All ye who are lazy and gluttonous, be ye peasant, soldier or scholar, get to the land of Cockaigne and taste there all sorts of things without any labor. The fences are sausages, the houses covered with cakes; capons and chickens fly around ready-roasted...
...film. It is a story of little people, faced with a big threat to their usually placid existence, and it is handled accordingly--without melodrama or bombast. There is no etching of characters and situations in black and white--each person emerges as an individual, and even the German soldier is a human being rather thn a symbol of evil...
...acting is superb. Aldo Fabrizi, who plays the part of the farmer, brings to his part the sublety and delicate shading of real understanding which he previously demonstrated in Open City, and the rest of the cast are equally appealing. The handling of Joe, the Negro soldier, is particularly interesting: the natives frankly treat him as something of a freak and are quite unabashed in so stating. Yet beneath their curiosity, lies a genuine respect which permits Joe to attain individuality and equality seldom before accorded a Negro on the screen...
...return in the long run, they would not be reaped until the hold of want and oppression on the world's throat was broken. The country's decision to break it was the vastest gamble in peacetime history. George Marshall's estimate-"calculated risk"-meant in soldier's language that it could be won, if all went well, if the most powerful nation in the world threw all its physical and moral strength into the fight...
...Fool." Except for his grim mouth, Ryukichi Tanaka, a fat little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...