Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yank in the R.A.F. (20th Century-Fox) shows Tyrone Power in modern dress -and about time. As a cocky American pilot with an eye for the ladies, dark-eyed Tyrone is a Yank who fights at Dunkirk with the R.A.F. Although he feels called upon from time to time to refer to himself as "a worm," his performance is not as bad as all that, is pleasantly human...
...Yank's title adequately prefigures its plot as well as the picture's chief weakness: too much Yank, too little R.A.F. The business of getting a London cabaret queen (bountiful Betty Grable-not the slip of a girl she used to be) and Pilot Power together is so touchy that there is small time left for R.A.F.orts. Overdeveloped though it is, the story (concocted by Producer Darryl Zanuck) notably avoids most of the ruts of Hollywood's aviation epics (e.g., Tyrone Power does not even become a hero...
Excitement seekers who complain that the newsreel outfits aren't taking advantage of their chance to photograph history as it gallops past, haven't any more kick coming. For what the newsreels haven't done, Hollywood has-in no uncertain manner. "A Yank in the R. A. F." packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that...
...bang out of plenty of noise, lots of blood and even more thunder, with some excellent aerial photography thrown in then "A Yank in the R. A. F." is almost sure to make you sit up and ask Winston for more. It's as much fun as hissing Hitler in the newsreels...
Hertz's intentions, not his background, worry the Army. Two fears: 1) that he will yank MTD away from the Army, make it an independent bureau; 2) that he will work too fast, redden the face of many a poky brass hat. As aides, Hertz will use businessmen, not Army officers...