Word: cooperativeness
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...Brennan's superb acting as "The Law West of the Pecos" lends an undercurrent of profundity to all the merry, Western violence. The plot between the shootings is supplied by the Judge's incognito love for Lily Langtree, the actress, and by the romance between a handsome saddlebum (Gray Cooper) and a homesteader's daughter (Doris Davenport, unfortunately). From character play and comedy the picture finally sinks into old fashioned melodrama, and ends up on a note of social significance to remind you that everything was only the Western Movement after...
...though his conscience were speaking, for Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper had long ago officially denied the charge, Eamon de Valera blurted: "It is a lie to say that German submarines are being supplied with fuel or provisions on our coasts. ... It is known to be a falsehood by the British Government itself...
...Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich was a lugubrious failure to realize that Hitler was not an English gentleman. As Alfred Duff Cooper later said, "Chamberlain had never met anybody in Birmingham who in the least resembled Adolf Hitler...
...parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot and of corny dialog arrives as the small outpost...
...Whom the Bell Tolls" is, incidentally, a thrilling story--Gary Cooper will fit well into the role of Robert Jordan. The dialogue is surprisingly effective, translated almost literally, as it is, from the Spanish. The picture of war-wracked Spain has an authentic air--there are heroes, villains, and likewise bunglers on both sides. Several brilliant "set pieces" dot the pages of the book: an unbearably bloody and terrifying description of the start of the Revolution in a small village, a nauseous discourse on the "smell of death," and three exciting love episodes. But it is the spiritually tortured character...