Word: alistair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRICE OF GLORY (371 pp.)-Alistair Horne-St. Martin...
...Ministry of Works' chief restorer, Alistair Stewart, thinks that the 16th century paintings of the Passion were commissioned by Henry. Other panels were covered with a blackened 17th century overpainting of inferior quality. It was when the restorers X-rayed these for the 16th century work beneath that they found traces of an even earlier work. Stewart attributes the 16th century paintings to one Lambert Lombard, who, in blotting out the paintings already on the canvas, used a coat of solid color that actually preserved at least part of them. The restorers feel they have uncovered as much...
...Hollywood did not have Gregory Peck, it would be madness to think of converting this novel into a movie. Alistair MacLean's heroes are not only larger than life-they are a sort of flea's-eye view of the Colossus at Rhodes. An earlier book that MacLean sold to the movies was The Guns of Navarone...
GARY: One of the most unbelievable -- and entertaining -- war pictures in some time, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE follows closely the best-selling novel of Alistair MacLean to tell the story of a band of saboteurs sent to destroy an emplacement of enemy guns on the Greek island of Navarone. The principals include Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn...
...Secret Ways (Heath; U-l), from the thriller novel by Scotland's Alistair MacLean, is, like most of his works (H.M.S. Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone), a derring-documentary that celebrates courage-for-a-cause. Hero Richard Widmark starts out believing that "everybody's learned to live by compromise," changes his mind after he and the audience have spent 112 minutes of sadism, gunplay, torture, capture and escape, cliffhanging, ledge-crawling, escape and capture. It is easily the most relentless movie chase since The Great Train Robbery...