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...early '40s, the spy pre-empted the gangster as Hollywood hero. After WWII the national mood turned cynical and gangster movies were revived as grim portrayals of city life, with dark, oppressive lighting, lonely streets in the cold rain, and tough cookies like Barbara Stanwyck who came into their...
THURSDAY: Ballad of a Soldier. (1960) Russian-made love story traces the romance of a young soldier on leave during WWII and the girl he falls for. CH.2...
MONDAY. The Subject was Roses. (1968) A real sleeper with a hell of a fine performance from one of my favorite actresses, Patricia Neal, who plays the mother in this poignant WWII drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Frank Gilroy. Jack Albertson won an Oscar for his supporting role as the father who welcomes his son home from the war, despite the mother's misgivings about the new-found independence of her son (Martin Sheen). Judy Collins sings "Albatross" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" for the sound track...
SATURDAY: Ivan the Terrible, Part I. Sergei Eisenstein's epic biography, the first part of a never-completed trilogy begun during WWII. Music by Prokofiev...
...directed this film of the Herman Wouk bestseller, produced by the indefatigable Stanley Kramer, and it ends up as an Eisenhower-culture fantasy; the Jewish lawyer gets to ask, in the final moments. Where all of Captain Queeg's mutinous underlings were when Queeg was fighting--right from WWII's beginning--to prevent his grandmother from being turned into a soap-bar. Bogart is Queeg, the psychotic captain of the U.S.S. Caine, and he's fine: it's fun to watch Fred MacMurray and Van Johnson flounder in his midst...