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Tokyo, 3,380½ Miles Away. The characters are skillful percolations off men mentioned in Tregaskis' book-a clownish, kindly-hearted Brooklyn taxi driver (William Bendix), a smooth, hard sergeant (Lloyd Nolan), an ex-All-America chaplain (Preston Foster), a trigger-happy, brave child called Chicken (Richard Jaeckel). These men and others as simply characterized are put through 1) quiet days & nights of increasing apprehension; 2) the raid on a nearby village (Matanikau), from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling...
Hostages (Paramount) should have an irresistible appeal to devotees of dynamite, sudden death and Luise Rainer. The picture, a tortuous melodrama about the Czech underground, brings Cinemactress Rainer back to the screen after a five-year absence. It also notably advances the talents of prognathous William Bendix...
...bribe his way to freedom. Their efforts involve them, unwittingly, in Prague's underground. One member of the underground is prepared to "confess" that he "murdered" the Nazi in order to bring about the release of the hostages. Reason: one of the hostages (William Bendix) is invaluable to the movement. From there on, the action be comes a fugue of double and triple crossings...
...Different Matter. The gyro flux gate compass, on which Bendix engineers worked seven years, is based on an entirely different principle. Exactly how it works is still a military secret (at least one of the instruments has fallen into Axis hands, but its inventors believe it will take Axis scientists years to figure it out). Its basic parts are a triangular set of coils and a gyroscope. The function of the gyroscope (which spins at 10,000 revolutions a minute) is simply to keep the instrument level during a plane's turns and lunges. The coils, which replace...
...result, according to a Bendix spokesman: "The new compass will not go off its reading when the plane dives or climbs rapidly ; it will not lag or overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in regions where a magnetic compass breaks down completely-near the North & South Poles. Because of the weak magnetic currents there, a magnetic compass is useless within 1,200 miles of either Pole; the new compass, much more sensitive, works as close as 300 miles...