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...Died. Meyrich Edward Clifton James, 65, British character actor who played his greatest role in 1944 just before D-day when he fooled the Germans into believing that he was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery on an inspection tour of North Africa and that the invasion was therefore still some time away; after a long illness; in Worthing, Sussex...
...nostalgia for the days of hope in early 1953 to admire and value his book. His narrative has the fascination of testimony, and his argument is much more than a plea for a sympathetic judgment of Eisenhower (though it is certainly that). The inertia that humbled the architect of D-Day is currently blocking the efforts of his successor on every front, as Hughes ends by noting. He offers the defeat of his Eisenhower as a warning
...D-Day (NBC), a David Wolper documentary on the Du Pont Show of the Week, made Hollywood war movies look like so much stagecraft...
...Longest Day. General Zanuck's war games are played off like cops and robbers. With 42 stars and a musical score by Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...
...Longest Day. General Zanuck's war games are played off like cops and robbers. With 42 stars and a musical score by Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans, dodging bullets (even the casualties are bloodless), and scaring old ladies. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...