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...known to his men as the "Fat Boy." Actually muscular and fit as a fiddle, he expected his subordinates to keep the same way, would often give an aide a strenuous tour of duty just to get the flesh off him. Mounted on a white charger, Gort was a heroic figure as Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous field of France. He shone as a systematic organizer rather than as a brilliant tactician. When he returned to England from the shambles of Dunkirk he was given the job of organizing England for the defense...
...They depict not only the quiet surroundings but the quiet minds of sober, thrifty Dutch burghers: well-fed merchants of Amsterdam and Haarlem and their complacent, buxom wives, peaceful seascapes, fertile landscapes, plethoric fishmarkets, tables loaded with fruit and flowers. What makes them great art is no transcendental or heroic message but the unequaled quality of their honest, painstaking craftsmanship...
...cannot but be recognized that thus far it has been China's heroic and effective resistance which has preserved the loyalty of the Asiatic peoples to the cause of the United Nations and served to combat the Japanese slogan of Asia for the Asiatics. . . . Equally certain is the fact that active participation in the war by the Indian people would have political effects of immense military value...
...integrity of our Russian allies, a film like this carefully prepared and intelligently presented account of the U.S.S.R.'s struggle against the Nazis is welcome fare. With a minimum of bravado and a maximum of restraint and straightforward presentation, "Moscow Strikes Back" paints a graphic and moving picture of heroic proportions about the struggle in which the Red Armies and the Russian people are now engaged. Every scene is packed with action, action that wasn't prepared in advance by scriptwriters and directors. It is action caught by the camera of photographers who followed the battles through the ruined villages...
...carefully prepared surprise for their effects. Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...