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Lifeboat (20th Century-Fox] is one of the most ambitious films in years. It begins with a close-up of a foundering ship's funnel that might stand for the end of an era. Then the camera closely meditates a dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye...
Change by Range. But soon Major General William Kepner's Eighth Fighter Command radically changed bomber operations along the Britain-to-Germany airways. His seasoned combat pilots have made clannish bomber men welcome their fighter escorts. One of the best of the bomber's new friends is a...
On a typical escort mission Cummings' crew chiefs readied their Thunderbolts before dawn. Then the muddy-floored briefing room filled with leather-jacketed pilots. They listened to Wild Bill's parting advice on the flight plan and tactics, took off. The crew chiefs gathered around the loudspeaker to...
Soon after the fighters made their rendezvous with the bombers, the first German fighters appeared. Five minutes later the first German plane was down. The battle was brief: Cummings' group destroyed four Germans, with two probables and two damaged. No bombers were shot down.
"Cinderella in reverse" is Miss De Haviland's own description of the plot. She plays the rich princess to Robert Cummings' poor boy, while Charles Coburn makes a gruff fairy godfather. The worst that can be said of them is that Olivia is merely silly in a few scenes and...