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Marrying Marx. A plantation foreman's son who went to Northwestern University in 1941, married a Chicago-born Young Communist Leaguer named Janet Rosenberg, and came home yelling Marxist war cries. Jagan has simmered down in recent years, swung toward advocating order and development...
...Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliche in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill; and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style...
...week, on a British-owned farm, 200 workers-victims of the Burumatare syndrome-quit work in terror, refused to return to their jobs in spite of the owner's attempts to reassure them. "Our hearts are different to yours, master," they said. At the suggestion of his African foreman, the farmer painted 200 rubber bands white and slipped one on the wrist of each laborer. Only then did the local natives finally return to work, confident in the power of the white master's juju magic...
...Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliché in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill, and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style...
None of this matters in the least. Too much respect for tradition never hurt a fairy tale; the important thing is the telling. Film Maker Foreman and Director J. Lee Thompson (Tiger Bay) send their Jacks up the beanstalk at double time, and keep them moving by setting off enough gunpowder to supply South America's politicians for a decade. The saboteurs, especially Quinn and Actress Pappas, are an agreeable lot of brigands, and if their destruction of the giant and their eventual escape down the beanstalk are thoroughly predictable, what perverse child would have it otherwise...