Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Pastor Hall (United Artists) is redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some...
The men around the President are sev eral groups, reflecting the uses he has for them, and his personal liking. Those who attract his mind are usually those who fight a brilliant kind of intellectual guerrilla warfare which their opponents call outright unscrupulous. All are New Dealers to the core...
Belatedly the secret services decided that Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domville, 62, onetime chief of Naval Intelligence and, since his retirement in 1936, an ardent Naziphile, guest in Germany of Hitler, Göring and Gestapo Chief Himmler, head of The Link (British pro-Nazi cell), was a dangerous character...
Lean, mild-mannered, 59-year-old August Henkel, backed by the United American Artists, CIO affiliate, threatened to sue Colonel Somervell for defamation of character. The press looked up Artist Henkel's background, found that in 1917 he had been convicted of burning the U.S. flag (in a peace...
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) marks Mickey Rooney's ninth appearance as bratty Andy Hardy, his first since he was crowned King of the Screen and the No. 1 box-office attraction of the U. S. cinema. More believable as Andy than as young Tom Edison, Cinemactor...