Evening star., 1951-01-14
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY. JANUARY ID, 1881
Hero-Worship Stamps
Mi|estone's Movies
Halls of Montezunoo' an Epic Sequel
To Directors Memorable Films
By Joy Cormody

Director imprint millions
1914. And in 1851, he sets
solid being the Incompatible man in his field with
1t long Milestone pictures but when of
then arrives. emphasizes that he the HOLLYWOOD
spirit to the typewriter OF
the late beloved Ernie Pyle.
oot-soders and vice His hero is
the fantyman the sloggng crawling human who climbs out
the mud and muck his mad mother earth to prove that in final
analysis nearest of to superhlman.
Clear cose Of Hero Worship
It is this unfailng indeed inecapable heroworsp that
epics of Mestones movies It this that lifts
above the fear that they might be imed in being re-
when the shadow of lies across the image OF the
Halls of Montezuma Milestone is the man who
can assert special eloquence that is resst
ible regardless of the circumstances OF its utteance
Mestones faith in the whom his pictures honor
ordnarinss is what makes them
of his they become types In out
the gentle and bwdeed one the cocky kid the frustrated pho
sophie fact all the standard nanymen except the one
TSsr. Is No Kid From Brooklyn
The the everlasting repute Of him
His treatment of these and individual
the soldier played by Lew Ayes in A Quiet and
the Marines instead of symbols They
the essential dramatic difference between Mesones
What Halls of Montezuma is that
the helshnes the emotions and
minds needs and nothing else will do
So his principal character Widmark in his latest picture
former high chemistry nothing OF the
about him. He suffers from migrane headaches
combination of fear and hatred for battle His physical
condition permit but his conscience will
not trapped until he dies This his only escape
from with minute OF every day
n a to which he ending
Even is his duty to be leader. With all his
horrible distase members Of the he
time He cannot understand this
power that duty holds him. he only do its bidding
These Are Heroes in Spite Of Themselves
Mestones characters equally heroes in spite OF
themselves the quality of uniqueness and
freshness
who plays the second OF lestoneS oaslc
soldiers striking resemblance AyeS the l930s
Quiet with equally panstakng care His aversion
anything than that of his lieutenant He
himself brave breath he draws and
he matching dramatic figure in Halls Of Montezuma
Another unfogettabe ordinary figure in this extraordinarily
spectacular the medical corpsnan played
gentle kindly bewdeed by the in human
te conviction that evil will somehow be wiped
out in the he is fighting 80 "'-F r"~e'@
numerical superiority OF soldiers over oncers among
Milestone of military organization charts
prejudice director against brass such HIS battle
worn colonel constantly from dgradngy aH cold
in the head is as sympathetic in the small Marine
group upon which the camera focuses
Even the Comedy Characters Are Fresh
the comedy relief character He
not greatly the lighter side OF ne
its existence in the emphasis upon two such ngure
his latest film ~ .
One of stereotype old
Marine private who non-fghng time trying to dis
till himself drink.
Milestone time this character resting the
comedy his picture brittle British sergeant played
This fresh sort in more ways than one
and quite others making the point that the
be timed to keep war pictures
out of