Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough action and cop-and robber chases to last well on into the morning. As a matter of fact, probably the biggest fault in the film is its overabundance of climactic gunfights and midnight war chouse searches. These are exciting and all that, but they leave you a bit worn out when they're finally over...
...cope with, yet only five out of 50-odd plays this season have tried to cope with it. Farces and comedies have flopped as fast, and been as feeble, as dramas, for the good reason that playwrights have shamelessly aped other men's hits, exploited worn-out formulas, slapped their scripts together overnight...
...Foot in Heaven" is a lot better than it ought to be. Basically it's nothing more than the time-worn saga of the kindly country minister--he could just as well have been a doctor or a lawyer--and his self-sacrificing wife who endure a multitude of hardships and finally win the happiness they're looking for. It's an old story; and when it's carried out at too great length, as is done in this film, it's an old story; and when it's carried out at too great length, as is done in this...
...United Nations were not idle. Down from China marched troops of Chiang Kaishek, tattered, road-worn, weather-beaten and fit. They traveled in the classic Chinese manner-on foot and incredibly fast-covered 1,000 miles before going into position. Probably they were somewhere on the upper Thailand border, from which more Japs might still issue to strike directly at the Burma Road...
...Cutten has always loved discipline and self-denial. (Himself a rugged example to his students, he has never in his life worn an overcoat, at 67 still braves the bitterest weather in his indoor clothes.) Also on occasion he has denounced doctors, philanthropists, relief, Social Security, because they assist in the "suicide of civilization" by coddling the unfit. Of the Declaration of Independence theory that "all men are created equal," Dr. Cutten humphs: "If it were true, there could never be a winner in a foot race...