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...have been in Frankfurt before, but covering it almost end to end today I found no single landmark I recognized. In these miles and miles of ruins there is nothing but dullness and apathy, a state that seems like a sleepwalking trance. The backdrop is complete destruction; the script is desertion in the face of danger. And all the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-'Frankfurt Stands Firm'-'Better Death Than Slavery'-are nothing but a mocking epitaph." (See FOREIGN NEWS...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
Said he: "No one will believe me when I tell this. . . . I'll be called a sucker who fell for another corny script...
...directed by Lieut. Commander Dwight Long. Their combined mileage was cut to its present 7,500 feet and 60 minutes by Fox's Louis de Rochemont, first producer of the MARCH OF TIME, whose first Hollywood film this is. John Stuart Martin, formerly of TIME, wrote the script; Lieut. (j.g.) Robert Taylor, formerly of M.G.M., narrated it. More responsible, in a sense, than any one of these men for the film's magnificence were the automatic cameras which peered down the barrels of the guns of fighters and bombers to record the picture's overwhelming shots...
...which she had written the music and lyrics. The show-Straw Hat Revue-went to Broadway in the fall, and lasted ten weeks, which was long enough for Danny to attract some attention. He married Sylvia a month later, and thereby acquired first rights to her talents as script writer, songwriter, idea-man and all-round coach. As usual, she is in full charge of the new radio venture...