Word: archers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Destination Moon uses expert technical tricks to picture the oddities of travel beyond the earth's atmosphere and gravity Its four lunar explorers-a physicist (Warner Anderson), an industrialist (John Archer), a retired general (Tom Powers) and a dimwit radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions...
...Winslow Boy (London Films; Eagle Lion). Between 1908 and 1910, England was deeply stirred by a struggle between a teen-aged schoolboy and a hidebound bureaucratic government. At 13, George Archer-Shee had been expelled without trial from the Royal Naval...
...London and Broadway stage hit, The Winslow Boy (1946-47), Playwright Terence Rattigan stuck fairly closely to the facts of the Archer-Shee case, while rigging them skillfully for theatrical effect. In the movie version, Scripters Rattigan and Anatole de Grunwald stick too closely to the play. As a result, despite some superior dialogue and top-drawer British acting, the film plods along with more patience than it is likely to find in U.S. moviegoers...