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...Front. There is the cracked-up veteran who has seen too much (Stanley Baker), the wounded hero who begs to be left behind (Anthony Quayle), the American immigrant G.I. returning to his native village (James Darren), the cynical explosives expert (David Niven), the unresisting resistance heroines (Irene Pappas and Gia Scala), the good German, the bad German. There is also more than the usual helping of battlefield oratory, most of it delivered by that least martial of musical instruments, Peck's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Those Poor Devils | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...salute boomed out over Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport, Communist North Viet Nam's frail, wisp-bearded President Ho Chi Minh shuffled up the ramp into an Indonesian Airlines Convair, emerged with his guest of honor, Indonesia's President Sukarno. Burbled Ho, in the halting English he had learned years ago as a cook's helper in London's Carlton Hotel: "The Vietnamese people feel as if they were clasping in their arms 88 million heroic Indonesian people." Replied Sukarno, also in English: "I promise you, in the name of the Indonesian people, to support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: A Poor Place to Visit | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...picture has plenty of love interest (Anne Francis and Gia Scala), and even provides something in the way of a battle. Lieut. Siegel at one point sees service on a heavy cruiser-but it's only she-duty. He is assigned to look after a lady correspondent (Eva Gabor), who is all too easily persuaded to part with her panties, which are next seen fluttering from the halyards as the ship goes into battle. "Ggrrulfskrggrowlk!" roars the admiral, but a seaman standing by reminds him, with a jaw squared in patriotism, "Sir, that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...Dave Dubinsky-with one surprising variation. There is plenty of union activity, in a manner of speaking, but it generally seems to be of the kind that takes place between guys and dolls. The organizer, for instance, spends most of his time snuffling after his sexy young wife (Gia Scala) in an unpleasantly vulgar manner. The patronizing assumption seems to be that working people are always crude, and that leads to the soupy conclusion that crudity is therefore a virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...short, chunky man with a crew haircut and the face of an Oriental John Garfield walked into butter-colored Gia-Long Palace in Saigon one morning last week and handed to Premier Tran Van Huu a letter bearing the imperial seal of Bao Dai. The letter bluntly deposed Huu and named the bearer, 57-year-old Nguyen Van Tarn, as new Premier of embattled Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: I Make War | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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