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1940 |
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DRAMA
WAR
WORLD WAR II
ADVENTURE
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BW |
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104 |
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Adventures of British seamen aboard a freighter towards the start of World War II.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| A curate's egg. Gregg Toland's Oscar-nominated camerawork is excellent, and John Ford shows many of his strengths as a director, brilliantly creating the atmosphere of shipboard life; but the cast-members have a distracting multitude of accents (John Wayne is especially hard to swallow as a Swedish farm-lad), the screenplay ranges from moments of great power to romantic banalities about the sea. Richard Hageman's score and Sherman Todd's editing were Oscar-nominated. |
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from Eugene O'Neill's plays (The Moon of the Caribbees; In the Zone; Bound East for Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home)