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These "birds" (so the missilemen call them) are the heirs presumptive of war. They fly from New Mexico; from Point Mugu, a pleasant Navy station on the coast of Southern California; from Patrick Air Force Base in Florida; from the deck of the Navy's converted seaplane tender Norton Sound. Few ordinary citizens have ever seen them fly. Few more have heard their roar or seen their soaring sparks of light or puffs of dust on the desert. But in closely guarded factories all over the U.S., the birds are hatching. The head of one U.S. aircraft company predicts...
...more potent because it is superbly documented. The shots of Genoa are fine, and the Genoa citizenry which moves naturally through its city adds to the film's authenticity. The acting is excellent: Jean Gabin is convincingly weary and revived as the Frenchman; Isa Miranda is appropriately tender and brave as the woman who revives him and who finds satisfaction amidst poverty; and Vera Talchi is very good as her canny 11-year-old daughter...
Teresa's thoroughgoing naturalism commands respect and, for at least half the picture's length, admiration as well. In its Italian wartime setting, the movie develops a tender, hesitant romance between Teresa and an immature G.I. (Newcomer John Ericson), who has folded up with battle fatigue after his first taste of combat. When he recovers, they marry; until she can join him, he goes home to a tenement flat and his old dependence on his mother (well played by Patricia Collinge...
...clutch of reporters into his Brooklyn house and read off a letter of resignation. He did not mention Crane's tale of giving him $55,000, ended up in feeble defiance: "With a stomach which can no longer digest the hypocrisies of the so-called politicians, I hereby tender my resignation...
...these troubles was Chopin's orchestration. Generally uncomfortable in large works, the composer was nearly able to redeem the disjointedness of this concerto by the delicacy of isolated sections. Unfortunately, delicacy was precisely the quality Mr. Battista could not muster. He approached the most tender passages in a hard-boiled manner: although technically facile, he seemed suspicious of both sensitivity and real clarity. Thus the episodic character of the music, far from being disguised, was exaggerated to a degree which left the piece all but defenseless. It never had much armor anyhow--which is not surprising, considering that Chopin...