Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
000318
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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In Warners' deeply moving The Hasty Heart, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and some British Army buddies try hard to cheer up Scot Richard Todd. MOVIE REVIEWS 14 THE HASTY HEART ■ The Hasty Heart is an exceptionally moving film. Its hero is a proud and sullen Scotsman named Laughlin McLaughlin, wonderfully portrayed by Richard Todd, an excellent young newcomer — a newcomer to me, at any rate. Lachie, as McLaughlin is called, is a soldier, wounded in Burma. After an operation, he wants to go home to Scotland, but instead he's transferred to a new ward. The doctor speaks to the nurse (Patricia Neal) in charge of the new ward and to the ward's five men patients (one of them's Ronald Reagan) before Lachie arrives. Tells them Lachie is going to die. One kidney's gone, the other's defective. So be nice to him. Lachie 's hard to be nice to, though. Doesn't want any friends because he can't stand to feel beholden to anybody. He's saved up his money and he's going to buy a farm in Scotland. He won't even spare enough to get himself a kilt, though he's always yearned for one. He's maddening, but the men are sorry for him, give him a birthday party, complete with kilt. This breaks his shell. He says nobody in his whole lonely life ever gave him something for nothing before. He's a new man, even asks the nurse to marry him, and she promises. The blow falls when headquarters sends word that Lachie can go home to Scotland if he wants, and he discovers that this special favor has been granted because his days are numbered. Now he's sure the men and the nurse have been kind to him only out of pity, and he feels fiercely betrayed. I won't say any more, except that the picture's climax is painfully moving. When I saw it the audience wept buckets.