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...very weak. The celebrated race is well-handled, and portrays the extraordinary intelligence of the shepherd dogs, but even here Wull loses only because his master has taken one drink too many, and not because Bob is the superior strategist. In place of the original author's dramatic conclusion, doubtless because it involved a dog-fight abhorrent to the S.P.C.A., a weak and insipidly sentimental one has been created; and, all in all, the fundamental power of "the greatest dog story ever filmed" has been lost...
...devotion. I have also been impressed with the services at Yale, and with the live interest in religion which I found at Princeton; but here there is a sincerity, a consecration of purpose,--an atmosphere which I can only describe as the manifestation of a true spirit of worship. Doubtless it is partly due to the beautiful building in which the services are held...
When Mr. Bullitt arrived, after surviving a forced landing two days before in the airplane of Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, the perennial rumor of a War debt settlement with France revived. Europe's affairs were doubtless a leading topic for discussion. The pair went motoring, talked long and privately while picnic-lunching at the roadside...
...prohibition societies are already springing up, armed with new crusading vigor, and intent upon running him once and for all out of the land. Then, doubtless, the vicious circle would revolve once more: prohibition would be incomplete, would result in widespread contempt for law and a demand for repeal; then, when repeal was once more obtained, it would again prove wholly untenable and rouse such public indignation as to lead back to prohibition. At no time would the problem of liquor control be satisfactorily solved...
...task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the cliché of modern fiction, social significance. Result: so wooden that...