Word: detract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage, is wounded when he gets home), add to the "suspense" involved. They don't, they merely detract from an otherwise first-rate account...
...story is a familiar one: the fight of two escaped P.O.W.'s through German-occupied Italy into Switzerland. Around this simple idea author Richard Schweizer has woven a brilliant series of incidents whose episodic qualities and to rather than detract from the film's intensity. Even the brief appearances of such figures as a Catholic priest or peasant girl are so carefully etched that they contain wealth enough for an entire movie...
Alice Faye's return to the screen in the role of an unloved but triumphantly virtuous bride is not likely to add to or detract from her present reputation as a broad-shouldered blonde with a rich, husky voice. She does no singing in this picture, but her speaking voice is richly husky as ever even though she doesn't have much...
...stand in chow lines, sleep in heatless barracks, work in icy offices-and our promotions are subject to approval by WAC officers. We don't wish to detract from G.I. glory or to minimize their sacrifices, but we have shared some of their loneliness and privation and the least we expect from gentlemen is respect...
...only fair to remind PM readers that they have been forbidden to attend this picture, because it undemocratically fawns on royalty. As a mater of fact, there is some too naive wide-eyed astonishment stuff, but not enough to detract from the many laughs of the truly humorous parts...