Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...leaden for fantasy, the movie is mulishly slow, and so prone to linger on the obvious that for a while it barely makes the grade as comedy. Not content to have Francis show up his military superiors, Author-Scripter Stern lets the mule go on haranguing them as well. But in its best scenes, the picture kicks up enough fun to numb a tolerant moviegoer to its shortcomings. Actor O'Connor makes an amiable nitwit, and Francis (voice by horse opera's Chill Wills) is a tribute to the patience and technical skill of moviemaking...
...Caribou will have to produce more than a new president to convince Colorado mining men that the mine contains much uranium. After it was highly touted by Look magazine in 1948 as giving the U.S. "enough high-grade uranium for self-sufficiency in the atomic age," AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal branded claims like Caribou's as "tragically untrue...
Broderick Crawford deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Willie Stark. Crawford, an ex-grade B gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...
...Gantlet. In Rockville Centre (pop. 20,000), where the tracks run at street level right through the town, Long Island trains for many years have jammed up street traffic at rush hours, have killed nine persons and injured 24 in the past twelve years in grade-crossing accidents. State and railroad, at long last, were building an overpass. While the work was going on, trains were being run, one way at a time, over about 2,000 feet of "gantlet" tracks-with the left rail of the westbound track inside the eastbound rails. (A gantlet eliminates the need...
...went through three very distressing years together." To assist his rebuttal, the Denver Post-opened its pages to Kenneth Oberholtzer for a guest editorial explaining what the school system was trying to do. But next day, three more mothers stormed before the school board. "My sixth-grade daughter doesn't know a complete sentence," said one. "She doesn't know states. She doesn't know that North Dakota is one of the states." At the next meeting, it was a father who rose up in wrath: "What I want to know is when my boy is going...