Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What saves the film is the production-even the "thriller" section is handled with subtlety and fine acting. More important, the film was done with a skillful sense of humor. The dialogue is bright and witty, the comic relief sophisticated and highly effective. Throughout the tenseness of the investigation, one of the policemen persists in talking to the embassy in lumbering French, although they always reply in perfect English. And the come logic of a child's mind is played for its full charm. Bobby Henrey as Felipe gives the top performance of a well-acted movie. There is none...
...from the TIME & LIFE building, and Thomas used to run over for Thursday afternoon rehearsals of Toscanini's NBC orchestra. There, in the control room, Thomas had a rare musician's-eye view of Toscanini at work and an unequaled chance to note his careful preparation, his humor, his likes and dislikes, and his perfectionist's way of evoking great music from his musicians...
...that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
...their strike and set out to fight Beck with billboard displays, radio programs and full-page newspaper advertisements. They described Beck's newly founded local at Boeing as the "foul-hatched, illegitimate offspring of a power-crazed dictator . . ." They also had the impertinence to use heavy-handed humor in bearding the heavy-handed czar. One ad featured a drawing of an old-fashioned privy which was entitled the "Beckhouse." Another pleaded: "Don't go Beckward...
Battleground (MGM) is a story about the Battle of the Bulge. Filmed with a sentimental, Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day defense of Bastogne is gallantly manned by several of MGM's regulars (Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban), who were toughened up before the filming by two weeks' basic training, but who still look too full-faced for their battle-weary roles...