Word: tramps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embarassingly over-done in spots. As a serious warning to America that a Democracy is not altogether safe from some of its own power-craving citizens, it is rather well-timed and forcefully presented. And lastly, as a humorous love story about a newspaper sob sister and an erstwhile tramp, the picture is well-acted, well-written, and definitely up to previous Capra standards...
Over the din of the dinner the Governor's hillbilly band, masters of The Long Ago, The Tramp's Mother, and the classic Beautiful Texas, played on the mansion steps. Fifteen women fainted during the serving. Dinner over, the crowd streamed through the mansion, shook hands with the Governor, who gave each handshaker a big Texas grapefruit. One woman fell down and was tromped on; she became hysterical. Five more women fainted at the reception. Another broke her ankle when she jumped over a hedge. When the barbecue was over, the mansion grounds were covered with a vast...
...taking as many more as we have room for. Not often since the Mayflower has the scum of a European wave of the future been so rich in human talent and accomplishment. With names like Einstein, Werfel, Undset, Romains, Maurois, and Paderewski, the steerage list of many a tramp steamer begins like a European Roll of Honor. Beyond doubt, these newcomers average as high as if not higher than their hosts in education and intelligence. And economically as well as culturally the exiles can contribute to the American way of life...
...European port (presumably Norway) to England. The problem is complicated cinematically because 1) the convoying cruiser's Lieut. Cranford (John Clements) is supposed to have run away with, then deserted the wife of Cruiser Captain Armitage (Clive Brook); 2) crusty old Captain Eckersley (Edward Chapman) of the tramp steamer Seaflower prefers to go it alone, keeps dropping out of the convoy, unconsciously betraying its presence to German U-boats. Aboard the Seaflower is the runaway wife (Judy Campbell) and a hold full of frightened Jewish refugees. By the picture's end Lieut. Cranford has died heroically in battle...
...show that means something, that packs a punch, Hollywood must go back to its source material, life itself, and reproduce it faithfully. Masters of reality are Playwright Eugene O'Neil and Director John Ford of "The Informer." Together they have created a film of the voyage of a tramp steamer from the West Indies to England, a film which, in all sincerity, is a work of art, as photography, as directing, as acting, as literature...