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...their stars. A Navy transport (Douglas R3D-1) flew from San Diego, picked them up, headed back without Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Clark. Again, the plane belted into a storm, got within 40 miles of San Diego and safety. A work man on the ground thought that he saw flame in the sky; a rancher heard the transport's engines, flying low, then heard a distant crash. When searchers reached the top of Mother Grundy Peak, they found the smashed ship, eleven bodies, nobody alive to tell just what had happened. Airmen knew that for the four from...
...military eye is struck by the film's omissions as much as by its revealing details. Left out are the much-touted flame-throwing tanks and the anti-tank rifle, bigger than an elephant gun. which the Germans copied from the Poles and with which every infantry platoon is now supposed to be equipped. Most impressive is the constant presence of artillery far up in the front lines. Wherever there are tanks, there too is artillery, to batter enemy tanks. Engineers are everywhere, too, building pontoon bridges, clearing debris, mining obstacles. The slow, energy-saving step of the infantry...
...then started a one-room Bricklaying College of America with an unemployed Assyrian bricklayer as the faculty. Moving into show business he ran a road show whose star was a trained penguin, wrote gags for Hellzapoppinjays Olsen & Johnson. For the Chicago World's Fair he devised a moth-&-flame dance in which the flame left the moth in the nude (several moths got burned in rehearsals). Thereafter he produced Broadway flops, sold Santa Claus paraphernalia to stores, raised enough money to produce his sensational Hot Mikado with Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson in the lead. Then came his New York World...
...dangerous duty of the septet is to mop up John Brown (Raymond Massey) and his followers, then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...lighted a fire which will burn with a steady and consuming flame until the last vestiges of Nazi tyranny have been burned out of Europe and until the Old World and the New can join hands to rebuild the temples of man's freedom and man's honor upon foundations which will not soon or easily be overthrown...