Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus with high confidence spoke Lieut. Colonel David MacDonald, director of the British Army's great battle film Desert Victory (TIME, April 12). Added he: "We in the British Army Film Unit are hopeful that we may from now on cooperate more closely with the film and photographic units of the United States Army...
Italy has six other marshals. Mussolini last week recalled five of them to active service.* Most of these men had been disgraced previously to cover up Italian defeats. Some of them have the backing of financial and industrial groups which might desert Mussolini if they could make a better deal. But on active duty, whether they like it or not, they must share with Mussolini the burdens and onus of final disaster. The five...
Five Graves to Cairo (Paramount) is a somewhat belated dispatch from the Hollywood militarists on Rommel's North African campaign. Paramount's stand-in for the Nazi Desert Fox is the bald and brutal veteran, Erich von Stroheim. Pitted against his terrorism is the youthful team of Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. United, the wits of these two turn the entire tide of battle...
...British tankman, Franchot Tone becomes a spy by accident. Lost in the desert during the British retreat of June 1942, sunstruck, temporarily deranged, he stumbles into a roadside inn which is shortly to become German Staff Headquarters. He quickly assumes the clothes and the role of a dead waiter who had been a Nazi agent. Brought before Rommel, he learns that he will be sent to Cairo for another undercover assignment. With a pretty French chambermaid called Mouche (Anne Baxter), he manages to decipher enough in Rommel's papers to locate five mysterious "graves" of buried German Army supplies...
...base in the Army's Desert Training Center (Calif.), Captain Francis E. Rogan made an inspection, finally commented: "The camouflage is only fair. They'd better work on it." Then he drove his staff car smack into the outfit's camouflaged staff headquarters, crashed one wheel into a dugout room...