Word: brandon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oust the enemy from the fictional islands of Gavabutu and Levu-Vana, Wayne delivers a bedrock performance that provides anchorage for the shipshape supporting cast. Pick of the lot is Nurse Patricia Neal, who enlivens Wayne's hours ashore with straightforward passion. Wayne woos his long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations war mounted by a former Congressman (Patrick O'Neal) and an incompetent admiral (Dana Andrews), then has to send the boy on a fateful attack. Big, tough decisions are made and carried out by such luminaries as Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Stanley Holloway...
...Brandon, John G., Death in Downing Street...
...CLOCK HIGH (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). While a stowaway on a bomber, a young clerk (Brandon de Wilde) is forced to operate the turret...
...drive to Longdale, Miss., 50 miles away in adjoining Neshoba County, to inspect the ruins of the Mount Zion Methodist Church, a meeting place for civil rights groups, which had been burned to the ground five days before. Bombings and burnings seem fashionable in Mississippi nowadays. Recently, churches at Brandon, Ruleville, Clinton and Hattiesburg have been either damaged or destroyed by fire or bombs; a Negro home in McComb has been bombed, and the N.A.A.C.P. meeting place in Moss Point was set afire...
...praise Miss Field I am ignoring the fine performances of the rest of the company. Eunice Brandon, as Laura, handles her long scene with Jim O'Connor especially effectively. Her shyness slowly disappears, then returns as she makes the one human contact of her life and loses it. I wish only that she were a bit shier at the beginning of the play so that the transition to the scene with Jim would seem less abrupt...