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...torpedo-launch together on the coast of France, she finds out that she really loves not Claude (Robert Young) but the American, Richard Bogard (Gary Cooper). The troubles that arise from this situation are what you might expect in the first contribution to cinema by gloomy Author William Faulkner...
Despite the fact that all these macabre heroics lead to a comparatively happy ending, Today We Live, adapted by Edith Fitzgerald and Dwight Taylor, is unmistakably a Faulkner production. Author Faulkner constructed it on the lines of his short story "Turn About," published in the Satevepost last year. It has all the Faulkner mannerisms from sentimental morbidity to painfully telegraphic dialog of which the following is an example...
...also in common with most of Author Faulkner's fictions a property which his mannerisms have caused his admirers to under-emphasize: an exciting story, with emotional content fit for mass consumption, sharply imagined and compactly told. Director Hawks, always at his best when dealing with dangerous machinery, makes the voyages of the torpedo-launch the most exciting sequences. Good shot: the funeral, with candles on a bar and a matchbox for a coffin, of Wellington, Ronnie's fighting cockroach...
...strong literary movement which will put the United States at the head of Anglo-Saxon literature is now rising," stated Harrison Smith, a member of the publishing house of William Faulkner...
...have obviously become part of their own period as they do not reflect the extraordinarily changed conditions in modern life. It is difficult to find in the younger English writers the sort of intense seriousness and vitality that is in the younger American authors. Writers like Dos Passes, Hemingway, Faulkner, are for the first time being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans had something to say. Men like William March, Halper, Thomas Wolf, Claire Spencer, the author...