Word: errol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, confesses: "It's too fast for me"), ITMA doubles up its British listeners. Puns like "Farewell to the night shifts of Dover" or "the lease lend the soonest mended" are a Handley trademark. So are topical quips like "I haven't laughed so much since Errol Flynn captured Burma." ITMA's rapid-fire cacophony of explosions, whistles, popguns, yawps, quacks and trambells draws enthusiastic letters from Continental listeners, who can't understand English, but find the sound effects screamingly funny...
Spearheading the invasion of Burma, Errol Flynn's company of Rangers parachutes behind the Japanese lines and destroys an enemy radar station. So far so good, but getting back is another story. Heading for a clearing to be picked up by a transport plane, they find themselves cut off by the Japanese. Directed to another map reference they fight their way to it through half the Japs in Burma and arrive to meet the Allied glider fleet...
...Errol Flynn surprises by doing his best to forget he's a matinee idol, and pretty nearly carries it off. Henry Hull is excellent as a rather improbable superannuated newspaperman who gets himself taken along on the theory that someone is needed to relate the action to the philosophy of global war. For the fans, the Flatbush soldier is here, too, played by George Tobias...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...