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...screen story of To Have and Have Not is still about a couple of low characters named Harry Morgan and Marie, and Harry is still a rugged individualist who takes rich men out fishing and earns side money in whatever nefarious ways turn up. But Harry's beat is no longer the axis between bourgeois. Key West and revolutionary Havana; he now works out of wartime Martinique, and the villains are Vichyites. Marie is no longer an idealized image of happy marriage; she is a tall, hoarse, egregious, 22-year-old tramp, so worldly-wise that when a policeman...
David O. Selznick has taken the simple story of the Home front and packed it with enough expert talent in acting and directing to produce one of the war's more eloquent screen productions. It's a tear-jerker from beginning to end, and even the toughest hombres will flick a salt-saturated drop from their grizzled exam beards...
...GENERALITY HAS CAUSED ME MUCH EMBARRASSMENT AND DISCOMFORT. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PUBLISH THIS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS DISPARAGEMENT APPLIED ONLY TO ONE MAN, WHOSE NAME AND ADDRESS I WILL SUPPLY AT THE DROP OF A HAT, AND DID NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE SCREEN DIRECTORS' GUILD...
...pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another bureaucrat (Charles Ruggles), who is too amorous to keep his mind on affairs of state, 4) a G-man, a porter, two chambermaids, five babies, a proudly beavered Orthodox priest. This screen version of The Doughgirls is even louder than the stage original, but not so fast and not so funny...
...Wilson" will stand for many years a vigorous documentary screen biography of a great American. It is not a motion picture with a message, but rather the vivid and moving story of an important President. Darryl Zanuck shows a quiet man of ideals struggling in a stormy era of materialism and comes forth with inspiring Americana...