Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director in France, Colonel Litvak made one of the best screen romances (Mayerling). As a director in Hollywood, he found out (All This and Heaven Too, This Above All) what U.S. filmgoers want to see. Colonel Litvak's special qualifications converge, in Battle of Russia, to create a superb and deeply moving film...
...some other people we didn't happen to notice. But despite the Hollywood additions, "This Is the Army" is still a stage show, a great spectacle with a top-notch array of talent. The soldier cherns makes like Fred Waring only better, and many of the individual stars are superb...
...Superb football by big men-including polished plays, with all 22 men blocking, tackling or running as in a coach's dream (see cut)-and smart promotion had put the pros on their feet...
...Chinese also look for great coal resources. Copper, critically deficient in the interior, is in Sinkiang; so are iron, molybdenum and other ores. Sinkiang's succulent fruits and melons are a byword in Asia. Its superb cotton, its magnificent horses are all of matchless quality. But peasant immigration must be limited to water resources-three or four millions is probably the maximum total of agricultural pioneers...
Ingrid Bergman has made this spic her bid for an Oscar and she looks fair to get it. Her acting is superb and her part its her; in all, she proves her right to the inner circle of Hollywood actresses. The supporting cast is equally good, Akim Tamiroff's performance is one of his best, and a newcomer, at least to Hollywood, named Katina Paxinour, gives a stirring portrayal of the woman-head of the guerilla band...