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Just before midnight, two policemen walked into Teheran's Park Hotel last week looking for Sefton Delmer, crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure...
Writer-Director Delmer Daves, who pleaded the cause of the American Apache in Broken Arrow, treats the Polynesians with the same respect. He rigs the story with their courtship and marriage customs, their rituals, superstitions, taboos. A preface labels these details as authentic, and most of them look it. The picture's anthropological approach is thus novel and sophisticated. Unfortunately, the dramatic uses to which this research has been put frequently seem as conventional and naive as the old Dorothy Lamour adventures on enchanted Pacific isles. What saps the movie's authenticity even more, and drains...
...James Stewart), tired of the fighting, gets the crazy notion that Cochise may listen to reason. Ignoring the scorn and warnings of the other settlers, he schools himself in the Apache language and lore, sends up introductory smoke signals and rides off alone into the dreaded Indian territory. Director Delmer (Destination Tokyo) Daves puts a fine edge of suspense on Stewart's long ride, his entry into the hostile Apache camp and his exchanges with the chief...
Dean of Freshman Delmer Leighton said that the 18-year-old Tacoma, Washington boy had been worried over studies and finances for some time. He had decided to leave college, but had not decided how to tell his parents. Leighton added that Desseau's November marks had been "good," but did not say if he was in danger of losing his scholarship...
Task Force (Warner) is an ambitious, full-dress review of the ups & downs of U.S. naval aviation. Thanks to the practiced teamwork of Producer Jerry Wald and Writer-Director Delmer Daves (Destination Tokyo, Dark Passage), it is a thoroughly businesslike job. By playing up the facts and playing down the fiction, they have produced a film which at its best carries the conviction of a documentary and the impact of history in the making...