P.'s and into a military court on an aid-to-black-marketers charge. And, except for the attitudes of distaste toward the Army that these two fellows have, you can find very little resemblance between them and the muddy Willie and Joe.A brief prefatory excursion with our heroes on the shifting fox-holed front, during which most of the old familiar tag-lines are worked into the show, is followed by this main slapstick contrivance in Naples, with the boys on the jump, getting out of a hospital ahead of the M. For 'Up Front,' as herein developed, might better be called 'Back Behind,' since it is mainly a romp with two loose 'doughfeet' in Naples while A. Mauldin ends and the creation of a scriptwriter and a slapstick intention begins. Alexander Hall, who directed, does everything but set up finger-posts.But there the association with Mr.

And, anyhow, they are usually delivered with full implications of their source. It is not hard to spot the derived lines. Roberts has picked up from the myriad Mauldin cartoons many of the pictured situations and has spliced them into his plot, with the tag-lines carefully planted in the dialogue. Wayne has the look of desperation and the sarcastic attitude-at least, in the picture's combat sequences-that were generally characteristic of Joe.Furthermore, Mr. He drawls in the weary, corn-fed accents that you would probably expect Willie to employ. Ewell is lanky and dog-faced, in the unloveliest sense of that phrase. True enough, in their make-up and deportment, Tom Ewell and David Wayne, who play the two 'doughfeet,' in that order, give a surface comprehension of the boys.Mr.

But do not expect the same terse humor and bitter irony of Mauldin's great cartoons to well up in the uninspired conniptions of this average service comedy.For the simple fact is that Stanley Roberts, who put together the picture's moot screen play, failed to bring into realization the genuine flavor and spirit of Willie and Joe. Bill Mauldin's famous cartoon characters, the immortal Willie and Joe, who became, as it were, the all-time symbols of the infantry soldiers of our citizens' army in the last war, are substantially re-created-in appearance and in attitude, at least-in Universal-International's 'Up Front,' which opened at Loew's State on Saturday.

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