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Agee, James | March 11, 1944 issue

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The article presents information on several motion pictures. The Army Orientation film "The Negro Soldier" is straight and decent as far as it goes, and means a good deal, to most of the black soldiers who have seen it. The film "The Purple Heart" is actor Darryl Zanuck beating his Hollywood rivals to the draw with a Japanese atrocity picture. It is a fictional account, much more controlled than it might have been, of the trial and torture of eight American fliers. In the film "The Fighting Seabees" American bulldozers engage in direct combat with Japanese tanks, but this opportunity for a few minutes of wonderful film is almost completely muffed.

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MOTION pictures; ZANUCK, Darryl F.; NEGRO Soldier, The (Film); PURPLE Heart, The (Film); FIGHTING Seabees, The (Film); FICTION
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