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...elaborate itinerary but only the vaguest destination. Its hero is some times protagonist, sometimes symbol, sometimes Robert E. Sherwood, but - in spite of Actor Tracy's very natural, likable, occasionally vigorous performance-never quite a flesh-&-blood human being. One trouble with The Rugged Path is that it is not dynamic enough to avoid seeming emotionally dated. Another trouble is that Playwright Sherwood never really comes to grips with the liberal's precise role in the present world. He would have had a harder hitting play if, instead of leafing through the whole testament, he had concentrated...
...coalition of Socialists, Social Democrats, Communists, Catholics, Agrarians and Independents. Its Premier: Social Democrat Zdenek Fierlinger, rotund ex-Ambassador to Moscow and prime protagonist of friendship with Russia...
...screen version of Tomorrow, the World! preserves intact and unimproved the play's prime weakness. The protagonist, son of a heroic anti-Nazi, learned to despise his father and to adore Hitler almost wholly through terror rather than persuasion. He is thus too specialized a case to represent the common run of Hitler's children, or to prove, in the story's closing suggestion that he is reconstructible, that there is any such hope for them...
...Hall the Conquering Hero" packs a punch. The theme of the picture is patriotism. Against this, Sturges plays love, plain and simple. The conflict of these forces within the protagonist, Eddie Bracken, generously spiced with ridiculous situations and hilarious horseplay, forms the basis of the plot...
Under the stress of pre-induction anguish, the protagonist, a former employe of the Inter-American Travel Bureau, b haves very badly. He quarrels with his well-meaning relatives, insults his friends, lives off his wife because he sees no point in getting a job that can only be tem porary. He also plays around with a trol lop, and whenever he grows too utterly unhappy, goes out walking in the rain, getting his feet wet to spite everybody...