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...episode of the Bismarck was one of the more peculiar and dramatic sea fights of World War II. On May 21, 1941, the day after the German invasion of Crete, the 45,000-ton battleship Bismarck was reported steaming out of the Kattegat into the North Sea, escorted by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Two days later, the pride of the Nazi navy was sighted speeding south toward the shipping lanes of the open Atlantic. Two British ships of the line engaged her. Bismarck quickly sank H.M.S. Hood, the biggest ship in the British battle fleet, and battered Prince...
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung...
...psychiatrist but a general practitioner, Crete-born Dr. Bontzolakis. 51, divides abstractionists into two classes. By far the larger: the poseurs, attracted by snob appeal, laziness, money or mere lack of talent. These, he finds, are rarely neurotic. But about one-third of his patients are passionately sincere, and they have both emotional and physical symptoms...
...Communist. When he worked in the U.S., Dassin was regarded as nothing more than a capable technician of suspense (Naked City, Brute Force). Rififi, a thriller he made in France after five years without work, revealed him as a superb one. He Who Must Die, made in Crete with French capital, suggests that Director Dassin may in fact be a broadly and intensely gifted artist, one of the best in the film business...
...Sparta. Helen is still beautiful, but the King has become a fat and greedy landlord whose subjects are on the edge of revolt. Helen and Odysseus are, up to a point, two of a kind. When he suggests that they run off, she agrees, and they slip away to Crete. There the King is old and sterile; there, too, the people talk revolution and the blond barbarians from the north are muscling in. The old King marries Helen, and Odysseus, after adventures of fierce brutality, leaves Crete without her and sails to Egypt...