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...Lift. Romance, propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...
...Lift" recounts most obtusely the story of the Berlin airlift. It is a long pull, is my decision, for both audience and airmen. Briefly, this movie offers no surprises, tension, credible characters, credible plot, or creditable photography--only, in fact, a few nervous laughs drawn from the lines of the usually funnier Paul Douglas...
...Lift (20th Century-Fox) is an ambitious, two-hour film that pays the price of trying to do too much: document the Berlin airlift, take the measure of postwar Germany, sell democracy, and keep an audience entertained. At times the price seems heavy, but it is not too much to pay for a movie with enough originality, authenticity and skilled craftsmanship to set it apart from the production run of Hollywood...
Clift and Douglas give unaffected performances that blend nicely with the acting of Director Seaton's remarkable nonprofessionals. Germany's O. E. Hasse shines as a cheerfully self-professed Soviet spy who feeds the Russians bogus airlift statistics because they will not believe the real ones in the newspapers. The film's most notable performer: Actress Cornell Borchers, who clearly qualifies as a "find." Alluring in a way that falls mercifully short of Hollywood's beauty-contest standards, she gives her role an unusual depth and subtlety...
...Last week in Southern Pines, N.C., the Air Force screened The Big Lift as part of a briefing for its 600-plane Exercise Swarmer, "a tactical application of the Berlin airlift under mock-combat conditions...