Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadows of smoldering fires started in the noontime raid....Civilians are assuming wartime posts of censorship, patrols, supplies, guarding, nursing, doctoring, evacuating, bandage-making....I watched half a dozen dogfights and saw at least two enemies downed....The Filipinos were good and spirited....Talking to already stubble-bearded, grimy Yank soldiers at undisclosed posts: "I'd like another crack at those low-flying bastards. Write my mother I'm a hero. I'll stay here. I'll stick it out."...Night sounds: howling dogs, shouts from sentries, douse that cigaret, turn off those lights, shrill police...
...International Squadron," the second feature on the bill, has some scenes from "Blitzkrieg im Westen," a few airplane action shots of its own, and a pointless love story. The result is a spotty rehash of "A Yank in the R.A.F.," better in some of its air-raid sequences but an inferior job in general. Right now, those bombs don't look fictitious enough...
...best potpourris in recent film history, "A Yank in the R.A.F." offers exciting glimpses of the bombing of Berlin, the evacuation of Dunkirk, and the conquest of Grable all three feats performed by Tyrone Power without so much as messing his coiffure. The supporting cast, sparked by Reginald Gardiner as an R.A.F. volunteer from the upper crust who is just bored with it all, give sparkling comedy performances; and a horde of extras with wonderful technical direction pack conviction into the military scenes...
...realistic air sequences are the oxygen that keeps Yank alive. Best shots: swift glimpses of Spitfires slithering toward the Channel coast, close-ups of a fighter plane's eight guns blazing, a well-constructed studio version of the evacuation of Dunkirk...
...like over there?" Drawls the laconic airman: "Cloudy." The cinema's first reconstruction of the retreat from Dunkirk-which seems destined to become as useful in drama and story as the Battle of Waterloo-has a camera angle that is certainly non-Axis. Isolationist Senators might well call Yank pro-British propaganda. Even more obviously it is pro-box-office propaganda...