The New Pictures, Jul. 3, 1944

Days of Glory (RKO-Radio). Towards the end of Days of Glory, when Nazi tankmen are about to wipe out a band of Russian guerrillas while the guerrillas defend themselves tooth & nail, the heroine (Tamara Toumanova) disconcertingly takes time off. Getting her highly literary words in edgewise between battle noises (Bang! Ouch!), she tells the hero (Zoop! Gregory Peck) that she is more than pleased (ratatatatatat) to have made (Bong!) his acquaintance. To a similar deafening obbligato, they then repeat the guerrilla oath.

Somehow it all seems rather silly. So does the rest of Days of...

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