Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special citation: two British documentaries-A Queen Is Crowned (TIME, June 22) and The Conquest of Everest (TIME...
...Conquest of Everest (United Artists). The heart-shaking camera record of the 1953 expedition to the top of the world's highest mountain (TiME...
...would not make enough money. Even so, the continental-import trade was a little shoddy. The British did somewhat better. They produced a top-notch musical (The Beggar's Opera), a funny farce (The Captain's Paradise), a first-rate war picture (The Cruel Sea), and The Conquest of Everest, probably the year's most memorable movie...
...Conquest of Everest (Countryman Films; United Artists) is a film record, in full color, of the 1953 expedition led by Colonel (now Sir) John Hunt of the British army, which succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002 ft.). The film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur...
...April, courage could no longer stave off defeat for sick and starving men. On April 9 Bataan fell, on May 6 Wainwright surrendered Corregidor. The Japanese high command had set a Feb. 1 deadline for the conquest of Luzon, and the men of Bataan had upset that timetable. They had proved that the Japanese could be stopped. And out of their defeat they had fashioned an enduring American epic...