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...writers of the screen play and the director obviously know a lot less about people than about the formulas of slick fiction. To believe in their characters, or to be moved by anything they do, you will have to be the kind of person who is charmed by hearing an improvident old grandpa (Charles Winninger) addressed innumerable times as "Grandfeathers"; or who can be convinced that a little boy, not trying to be smart-alecky, would say of a flower, "It stinks swell"; or who can be touched by the heavy-handed comedy and pathos lavished...
...Under a screen of heavy rains and thick fogs, the German Army pushed deep into Belgium. It was too much for blood & guts alone...
Filmed in London, this screen version of Louis Golding's novel (TIME, July 24, 1939) is in some respects as hammily insistent on wringing the last drop of emotion out of the audience as East Lynne or The Old Curiosity Shop. But since history has made its horrors real, and the story is intelligently produced and extremely well played, it is one of the most affecting of anti-Fascist screen melodramas. Stage Veteran Felix Aylmer turns in such a mellow performance as the fragile, intrepid old man that it is easy to forgive him for visibly licking his chops...
...strong ultraromantic influence of Nazi documentaries, which try by melodramatic low-angling and gauze-and-halo effects to turn human beings into creatures out of a legend.) The film is probably the clearest exposition of the rhythm and strategy of a battle that has yet been put on a screen for laymen. Its deeply moving close: an airman, dead in his shattered plane, is given sea burial...
...racket shows cannot resist money." "The GI Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want to expel those who fail." Hutchins recommended nation-wide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot succeed in or profit by college, and a plan to stimulate the colleges' discrimination and alertness by making them feet the bill for each of their veteran students...