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...Japan. On the flight deck of the Princeton, men in multicolored jerseys scurried to their positions for "recovery" (taking planes aboard). The "hot papa," in his shroudlike suit of white asbestos, waited too, ready to dash into flames for rescue if there should be a bad crack-up on the deck...
Under the searching eye of the television camera, and compressed into an hour's playing time, the TV Othello became a taut, single-minded study of the crack-up of the tormented Moor (played by Britain's Torin Thatcher) under the evil persistence of lago (Alfred Ryder). Producer Fred Coe managed to fill, but not clutter, the TV screen with a swirl of movement, created a sense of space by letting his cameras probe down colonnaded halls and into drapery-hung apartments...
Home of the Brave. An outspoken anti-prejudice film about the crack-up of a Negro G.I. (TIME...
Home of the Brave (Screen Plays; United Artists), as a Broadway play by Arthur Laurents, described the crack-up of a Jewish G.I. who was a victim of race prejudice. The movie version, produced by the same small studio that made Champion (TIME, April 11), daringly substitutes a Negro in the central role. Home of the Brave is thus the first of Hollywood's new series of Negro problem films to cross the finish line...
After the crack-up, the local atmosphere--"typical farmer" and his "typical farm family"--so affects to embezzler that he confesses, and so affects Miss Fontaine that she falls in love with Mr. Stewart. From then on everything is according to Hoyle...