Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munich last month the Nazis and Japs were clasped in a tender esthetic embrace. Nazi Playwright Curt Langenbeck had adapted the most famed of Japanese dramas, The 47 Rōnin, which was produced with considerable care and éclat. To the opening of Treue (Loyalty) went Gauleiter Giesler and other Nazi party officials to welcome the representatives of "our great ally," Japanese Ambassador Oshima, Japanese Minister Sakuma...
...Tender Comrade (RKO-Radio) is a kind of Little Women of World War II. But most of the characters are grownups who speak a curious chewing-gum dialect presumably intended to suggest that the speakers are tough but tenderhearted...
...hmmm. Coming at a time when most Americans are thinking about death in battle, Tender Comrade makes an arduous pretense of facing that tragic fact. But most of the film is a low-gear report about the hard times and good times of War Wives Rogers, Patricia Collinge, Kim Hunter, Ruth Hussey and Mady Christians. They work in an airplane plant, eat and sleep in a house which they run "like a democracy...
...there are touches, tender beyond the reach of invention. A boy who has withdrawn from the fight stands by a tree, exhausted, pinching the bridge of his nose. A young man holds gauze to his shot mouth and retires from the battle with precisely the hunched, half-stumbling gait of an athlete taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise...
...bombers made the most of it. They sank 19 Jap ships: two light cruisers, three destroyers, one ammunition ship, one seaplane tender, two oilers, two gunboats, eight cargo ships. Apparently the two carriers had pulled out. Only losses reported by the Navy: 17 planes. One ship was "moderately damaged...