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...City That Stopped Hitler-Heroic Stalingrad (Time...
...City That Stopped Hitler-Heroic Stalingrad (Central Newsreel Studios-Paramount), first Soviet film to be distributed by a major U.S. company, has been called the "mightiest war film ever" (by Manhattan's PM). It has also been called "objectionable in part" (by the Legion of Decency). Reason: the picture "tends to incite hatred of the persons of enemies and to be excessively gruesome." Stalingrad is not by a long shot the mightiest war film ever-Desert Victory (TIME, April 12), for one, was better. Neither can the Legion's objections be entirely brushed off. Nevertheless, the 24 Russian...
...Stalingrad's images are mere syllables, heroic or humble, in the terrific vocabulary of war which motion-picture cameras are now recording. They turn up in any war film, any good newsreel. What is done with them is what counts. Leonid Varlamov, who edited Stalingrad, is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Cinema Art, and works in the great tradition of Eisenstein. He has produced a literal, well-organized film, which lacks the heroic imagination that might have made Stalingrad a memorial adequate to the subject. More damaging to Stalingrad is John Wexler's commentary whereby...
...soaked up Texas history (Bonham was named for a heroic messenger of the Alamo); he also followed contemporary politics. His hero, and the hero of many another Texan at the turn of the century, was Joseph Weldon Bailey, a towering, rugged character, a mighty orator, a political reformer who rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap...
...gilt medal the heroic baker has to observe these stern commandments: bake excellent bread; build field ovens quickly; economize in the use of flour, butter and firewood; take care of the equipment; camouflage; be clean...