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Agee, James | September 15, 1945 issue

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The author comments on the motion picture "The Story of G.I. Joe," directed by William Wellman. The authors of the screen play, Leopold Atlas and Guy Endore and Philip Stevenson, have not only avoided writing a story, in any traditional sense they have also developed a rather original narrative style, dry, keen, sober and visually very imaginative. However, one of the most terrible things in the movie is the silent inconsistent notice of the change in the face of the youngest of the soldiers, after his first battle, from that of a lonely, brave, frightened boy to something shriveled and poisoned beyond suggesting by words.

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STORY of G.I. Joe, The (Film); MOTION pictures; WELLMAN, William; MOTION picture producers & directors; MILITARY art & science; MOTION picture industry
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