Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...credit side, the foreign powers brought China its first steamship, its first locomotive, modern science and modern education. They established a postal service, did a superb job of clearing away navigational hazards and charting the Chinese coasts...
...reason is that Commandos unwisely attempts to combine two pictures in one. Picture No. 2-the raid-is overshadowed by Picture No. 1-the stirring story of the Norwegian fishing village where the raid eventually takes place. Acted with superb restraint by Paul Muni and an excellent cast including Elizabeth Fraser, Ray Collins and Lillian Gish (in her first picture since His Double Life in 1934), the story tells about the transformation of the villagers after the arrival of motorized Nazi soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded...
Shadow of a Doubt (Universal) has the makings of a superb film: Alfred Hitchcock directed it; Thornton Wilder and Sally Benson helped write it; two of Hollywood's best young actors-Teresa Wright (Pride of the Yankees) and Joseph Gotten (The Magnificent Ambersons)-play in it. The result: a superb film...
...been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste falters only rarely, notably in her portrait of her Royal cousin, which might have graced the shop windows of a military tailor...
Maneuvers without Names. Catch's battleship was not alone. It had cruisers and destroyers with it. It was probably supported by some Grumman Wildcats from one of the U.S. carriers. But its own record was nevertheless superb. The ship, which must have been one of the new North Carolinas since they are the only U.S. battleships with enough speed to escort carriers, proved as well that it could take punishment. The 500-pounder caused so little damage that three weeks later, with Captain Gatch standing on the bridge with his left arm in a sling, the ship sailed into...