Word: tartu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tartu beach, who worked neck-deep in the freezing, oil-fouled water day after grueling day, were not particularly brave men, but they came to regard the regular Jap air raids as something in the nature of a diversion. These were the sad sacks of 1942 who would go on to beach LCIs at Saipan and Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, who would come back to America to find themselves half-strangers in their own land...
...offers a well-balanced program this weekend: two grade B pictures instead of the usual one piperoo, one stinkcroo. "Tartu," with gigolo Robert Donat and topid Valerie Hobson, is about a British spy doing impossible things in the heart of Nazi-held Czechoslovakia. That sort of thing just doesn't go over without some semblance of reality- and possibility; this was just too fantastic...
Whether you laugh more at "Tartu" or at "Young Ideas;" they're both good enough entertainment for less sophisticated moments...
Cowboy stuff with a European accent, "Tartu" is a good presentation of the way the war is probably not being won, but it's still a satisfying evening's entertainment...
...Tartu (Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson; TIME, Sept...