Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Robinson, the celebrated "Bojangles," is, of course, a superb soft shoe dancer. What comes through in this movie is not only his great talent, but his obvious enjoyment in playing his part. This same enjoyment is also found in Lena Horne and Fats Waller, and that is what raises them from the scores of run-of-the-mill actors in the film...
...fast, hard-shooting team, even without the help of its star Canadian center Johnny Casey, who landed in the infirmary at 5 p.m. this afternoon with a bad case of grippe. For the Crimson's part, the forwards passed and skated beautifully, and John Chase played a superb goalie's game, in spite of the seven goals he couldn't stop...
...varsity hockey team scored three consecutive goals in the last ten minutes of play at the Arena last night and upset highly regarded Boston University, 7 to 6. It was a superb exhibition of team play...
Tanaka Was Superb. Morison, another breed of sea dog entirely, is rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier...
...film of 1948, and has been collecting rave reviews here. Most of the praise is deserved. The photography is subtle and brilliant, a fresh realistic idiom for the moviegoer lulled by the stylized American technique, that, together with masterful directing, (by Carol Reed, director of Odd Man Out), and superb acting, raise a weaker plot to excellent drama...