Evening star., 1950-01-15
TheWarMoviesCo
But OnHunnon Scale
battle-ground and The Hosty Heart Hint
Time is Here for Rich Cycle
By jay Cormody

rapidly they
They nger in fact until sometimes impossible distinguish
Just where ends and the next begins.
However there still is distnguishable lu after which the
and sometimes the stage deem the time for pictures
plays dealing with the subject of
apparently right what with World War
movies opening Washington both Of them Of quality
indicate that their producers have acquired perspective These
exhibits BATTLE-GROUND the Mayer recall Of
the Battle of Bastogne and The Hasty Heart
fiction that reaches striking level Of dramatic
realism.
The Violence Is Removed.
What it brief lapse Of time takes out Of the theme OF
that makes paatabe to Of movegoers be
mysterious to but what the have taken
out Of it plain the weather outside window
In the two represented by battle-ground and THE
Hasy Heart the deeed element in simply OF violence
terrifying documentary shots Of death and destruction Both
prsey dramatic and engaging screenpays for what
left the simple humanity Of the small people who night wars
They echo the scale that Ernie Pyle de-
scribed it, sodersize and not in terms Of war
but drama of who seemed incapable Of climbing
to such heights OF heroism.
Both screenpays make
keeping them mere life SIZE Interestingly one OF these Battle
nominated for the s4s Academy Award and the
other already regarded suee candidate for the Oscar to
70 awarded for this years releases
Human Element Emphasized
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story by Robert this battle
Gen. Anthony MacAulifes "Nus-to-
Hitler" force few words is the story Of how the general
became the kind Of unit that could defy the Nazs
best in abrupt q word. magnificent a fight.
battle-ground great picture because it goes sra1ght TO
pictured ndvduast casual sort OF soldier who loahes
restricts his liberty and takes him away from his
favorite
being from his girl elses girl or his WIFE,
eating canned food and dozen other things and
ready beat the life out of who puts him In the position
Of having to put up with such things
"Types" Writer'S Fault
types soldiers battle-ground but this Is
something the door Of draft boards Gold
for instance) than to the beergrade writer's Of movie
scripts Prosh skilled scrptists has kept his from
clce with the help Of keeny chosen cast
including Whmore, John Kodiak George
Murphy and many Others
Of the almost hilarious rones OF films like Battle
characters in it provide the completely ORA
myth That this sloppy
almost nubordnate rugged ndvldua can rise 10 the
something that to be amazing
this designed reveal at Its best and
nothing delightful democratic
so making battle-ground special picture. is the
simple draining most of the violence out OF the war 1t pic
essng touched off the violence when
nothing else would do.
'Hasty Heart" Small.
Heart such statuesque recall OF war IT
touching ction-fu Of wistful suggestion OF real
of the characters This group
Army hospital in Burma after the fighting as ended;
motley Allies whose central figure little
destined to die before he get home
q mady proud, aloof who does not know he Is
xong to and yield his solitude to his fellow
patients who charged making the fierce last days
happy.
Heart" picture that not
picture real story about the men who found
involved world struggle It kind OF xray OF
clumsy kindness quick hurts and funny
added tremendous force that conquered
Htler's vauntedly unconquerable
makes good drama and 1t is good to see