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[[image: black & white photograph of Raymond Lovell and David Niven in performance]]

[[caption]] Raymond Lovell and David Niven in [[italic]] The Way Ahead [[\italic]] now at the Victoria theatre [[/caption]]

New Films

A British Tribute

The Way Ahead - [[italic]] (20th Cent.) At the Victoria. [[/italic// Here is Great Britain's testimonial to its great army of foot soldiers - a glowing and heartfelt tribute to the heroic tommies who are blood brothers-in-arms to our own G.I. Joes - the London clerks and Yorkshire farmers, the small-town shopkeepers and artisans, the myriads who left their peaceful homes six years ago to march against the most massive machine of murder ever assembled. These were the unprofessional civilian-soldiers who learned to out-think and out-fight the German hordes of professional killers. They were the men who fought and died to build the better world they themselves might never hope to see. 

[[italic]] The Way Ahead [[/iitalic]] is an impressive tribute. But it is also an engrossing, gripping and deeply moving drama of a handful of typical tommies - a memorable film that is all the greater because, although its immediate theme is how Englishmen took up arms against tyranny, its story is also the story of every man in World War II who gave his life that the world might live.

The story begins as one by one the men called up by the draft meet the others who are to be their comrades in arms. They meet in crowded trains and buses on the way to camp, in way-stations en route, and as recruits on their first day in barracks. One is a department store clerk, another his floorwalker boss, others are writers, artists, musicians, actors, grocery boys, ploughmen and mechanics. All have one quality in common with soldiers old and new of all nations - they gripe. General Eisenhower is authority for the statement that a good soldier, a healthy soldier, is a natural griper, and these men are well on the way to becoming good soldiers. They hate drilling, they hate sergeants, uniforms, red tape, brass hats, and everything symbolic of rigid army life. But most of all they hate the regimentation that army discipline imposes. Gradually they learn to overcome their resentment as they are whipped into platoons, platoons into companies, companies into regiments, and their regiments into a swift, relentless, hard-hitting, victorious army.

Humor is generously mixed with the drama, healthy slapstick and typical G.I. fun with the more tragic moments of disrupted lives and the military melodramatics of the climactic African campaign, that began the backward roll of the axis armies that ended so triumphantly four weeks ago in unconditional surrender. The all-British cast of [[italiic]] The Way Ahead [[/italic]] gives a well-nigh perfect performance. Among the players are David Niven, well known to American audiences, Raymond Huntley, Billy Hartnell, John Laurie, and Stanley Holloway. Carol Reed [[italic]] (Night Train, Girl in the News) [[/italic]] directed.

Miscellany - Films at the Museum of Modern Art this week include: June 1-3, [[italic]] Hands Up [[/italic]]  (1926) with Raymond Griffith, and [[italic]] Two Tars [[/italic]] (1928), with Laurel and Hardy; June 4-7, Ronald Colman and William Powell in [[italic]] Beau Geste [[/italic]] (1926). 

This week's Broadway holdovers include the Gotham's amusing comedy [[italic]] Molly and Me [[/italic]] , with Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields; John Steinbeck's naive, charming [[italic]] A Medal for Benny [[/italic]] , with Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova, J. Carrol Naish, at the Rivoli; the Rialto's chiller-diller [[italic]] The Body Snatcher [[/italic]] with Karloff and Lugosi. -JESSE ZUNSER

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CUE, JUNE 2, 1945  

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