Word: cooperativeness
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...typical U.S. success story (janitor's son to national hero), and Gary Cooper plays it with likable restraint. The film is somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic, but the facts stick reasonably close to Gehrig's life. The tone is entirely faithful. Gehrig had a stubborn vigor, a fine sense of sportsmanship, an honest belief in the copybook maxims. Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles...
...Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn; RKO-Radio) is, as nearly everybody knows, Gary Cooper impersonating Lou Gehrig, late, great first baseman of the New York Yankees. Some 80,000,000 U.S. baseball fans knew Gehrig or his picture by sight. A year ago, when he died at 38 of a rare, incurable form of paralysis, they virtually canonized him. To biographize him so soon was a ticklish job. Pride of the Yankees does it with taste and distinction...
Lord MacMillan was dull. Sir John Reith was dour. Alfred Duff Cooper was social. Then into the British Ministry of Information came red-haired Brendan Bracken, young (41), quick-witted protege of Winston Churchill...
...first, played in Manhattan's Polo Grounds between a thunderstorm and a blackout, was all-civilian: between picked teams of American and National Leaguers. The Americans, hopping on the National's super-duper Pitcher Morton Cooper before he had worked the dampness out of his mighty right arm, scored three runs in the first inning, starting with a homer by Cleveland's Lou Boudreau on the second pitch. That was enough to win the game (3-to-1) and the chance to represent the big leagues in the skirmish with Uncle Sam's club in Cleveland...
...good enough. His handsome, unlined face contradicts the profound words he is asked to utter. He does not for a moment look as if he had either thought or lived them. This deficiency is partially offset by the slick performances of bit-players Merivale, Nigel Bruce, Alexander Knox, Gladys Cooper, etc. Their considerable assistance helps make This Above All an entertaining, occasionally inspiring picture which almost came...