Word: stacatto
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...invent the submarine after all. According to United Artists in its latest release Mutiny, a handmade submarine of waxed hickory construction was used in the war of 1812 to sink a 70-gun ship-of-the-line. This film should please NROTC students and those who like their action stacatto...
...best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior to the sheep...
...does its best to provide in the way of stalwart males and it needs must be said that it succeeds in this if in nothing else. The picture has already been reviewed but for those latecomers who missed it, let it be said that it has Jimmy Cagney's stacatto, Joan Blondell's blondness and Ruby Keeler's senseless simper. The plot means nothing. You can see the show and understand it if you drop in while waiting for the subway. If you like spectacles, extravagance in settings and the aforementioned galaxy of stars, there should be no complaint with...