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With as much of an aura of the coming millennium as GWTW surrounding its approach, FWTBT--"For Whom the Bell Tolls"--seems to be a little battle-scarred but still on its feet. If Hemingway's story had hit the screen unpublicized it probably would have been picked out as a marvelous picture and knowing souls would shake their heads and say, "Now there's a fine picture. Why didn't those Hollywood people give it a better break...
...that have obstructed its path, however, the show has been somewhat anticlimactic. Gary Cooper is still the hero of Sergeant York etc. but he is cast well enough to make it seem right. The rest of the cast is as good an assemblage of true dramatic talent as the screen has offered these past few years...
...book, Hemingway's noval, is not what it was cracked up to be, not for the screen at least. It is, however, so much better than the scenario about commandos which the boys on the outskirts of Los Angeles have been grinding out lately, with a carbon under it for the next commando picture, that it, becomes a shining example of fine celluloid drama...
...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 the splendid screen images are undermined, overstated, or degraded by the propaganda of hate in which they are draped...
...other hand, that part of the audience which thinks Hunphrey and James the most adorable boys in the world sat enthralled, and the explosion of rifles from the screen was matched by the explosion from the cheaper seats, where the youngsters were enthroned...