Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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It's an operation necessary in order to knock out three German cities which are manufacturing aircraft superior to American aircraft. But the three German cities are deep in the Reich, beyond the protection of American fighter planes. Now, the campaign will take several days, and good weather is vital to any kind of success, so when the weather experts inform Gable that a few fine days are coming up, he orders "Operation Stitch" begun. In two days, the losses are so huge, everyone's appalled. The talk is that Gable's powercrazy; that he doesn't care how many lives he wastes. Pidgeon returns, upset. He's more diplomatic than Gable, he's used to juggling tea-cups and buttering up the right hostesses to get to important people — people who can help Air Power appropriations. He's just as concerned about the war as Gable, but they do their fighting along different lines. He wants "Operation Stitch" called off. A Congressional investigating committee's in the act of descending upon them, and he'd like the losses to look a little less horrifying for a few days. Gable claims that delaying "Stitch" means losing the good weather, and not knowing when good weather will come again. Whichever way the decision is made, men lose their lives. If it's done Gable's way, possibly it will mean a few men today, to have many men tomorrow. Some of the actors involved — John Hodiak, as a colonel, and Cameron Mitchell, as a lieutenant — give such quiet, forceful performances, they should both have medals. Van Johnson's excellent as Gable's aide, Charles Bickford plays a reporter, Edward Arnold a horrible congressman, and Brian Donlevy a brigadier general and a gentleman. — MGM. CRISS-CROSS Some of the most fantastic dialogue in the whole wide world turns up here. Our hero, Burt Lancaster, comes home to Los Angeles (he's been away for a year, trying to forget his divorced wife, Yvonne de Carlo) only to discover that he's still haunted by memories. He talks to himself. It goes like this. "You're eating an apple. You get a piece of the core stuck between your teeth. You tear a piece of cellophane off a pack of cigarettes, try to work the apple out. The piece of cellophane gets stuck too. ... I knew I was going to see Anna. ..." A little later, one of the other characters involved says (of Lancaster), "He's got her in his bones." And while you're attempting to figure whether she's in his teeth or his bones, the story unwinds. Since the divorce, Yvonne has been hanging around with a gambler (Dan Duryea). She still loves Burt, but she marries Dan out of spite, when Burt says a few mean things to her. Dan leaves town on a trip, Burt and Yvonne see each other (he seems to like her better when she's somebody else's wife) and when Dan comes home, he decides to wipe Burt out. Burt says, wait a minute, let's go into business, you're a big crook, and I'm a guard on an armored car, why shouldn't we be friends? This suits Dan. Together, they work out a robbery scheme, and it goes off flawlessly until Dan shoots down Burt's fellow-guard (Griff Barnett) in cold blood. Then Burt gets mad, and wrecks the whole works, and he lands up in the hospital acclaimed a public hero. A cop friend of his — ex-friend, anyway (Stephen McNally) — realizes Burt was involved in the robbery plot, though it looks to the world as if he'd been busily defending the payroll when the bad men struck. So