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...that lesson. Despite his habit of being right, he gets on well with most other airmen, even better with his employees, especially his pilots (David Behncke, hard-to-please boss of the gold-plated pilots' union, calls Patterson the "best airline executive in the business.") But sometimes his crisp manner irritates some of his compeers in the industry...
...most obvious fact about this movie is that it could hardly be improved on. Richard Murphy's script clarifies the community's characters, conflicts and issues in crisp, journalistic fashion; Norbert Brodine's camera work is as clean and precise as the script; the whole show ticks like an expensive watch. It is the best film to date by Producer Louis de Rochemont, who has already dedicated a couple of good ones (The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine) to the proposition that nothing is quite as real as the real thing, artfully used. This time...
From here on, says Patrick, Holiday will travel first class, pay its authors well. Its first dreamboat assignment recently went to Funnyman S. J. Perelman (Keep It Crisp), now en route to Bali with Artist Albert Hirschfeld. Title of their series: Westward Ha! or, Around the World in Eighty Cliches...
Chief consolations: Lee Tover's crisp camera work; Wallace Ford as a retired safe-buster; and the enormously proficient Mr. Bogart, who can just sit in a phone booth and make a long-distance call to St. Louis crackle with life and interest...
...Innocents* and the Latin American equivalent of April Fool's Day. At the San Tome camp of the Mene Grande Oil Co., the plane had just landed from Caracas. Its most important cargo: $287,000 in crisp bills to pay drillers and riggers. It brought also a surprise. When company paymasters opened the moneybag, they found only bricks and old newspapers. A Day of the Innocents' joke, was their first thought. But it was no joke; somewhere between Caracas and San Tome the payroll pouch had been stolen...