Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawrence of Arabia. A handsome new comer named Peter O'Toole is the star of this great big beautiful $10,000,000 spectacle-produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of a peculiar young Englishman who became the guerrilla genius of World War 1, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the landscape in which the story was filmed, by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
Lawrence of Arabia. The only spectacle released in 1962 that is truly spectacular: a film biography of the peculiar guerrilla genius who led the Arab revolt against the Turks during World...
Lawrence of Arabia. To the hero-happy public he was a guerrilla genius, the Galahad of World War I. To his military superiors he was a popinjay. To the Arabs he was Sheikh Dinamit, the spirit of the wind who led them to victory over the detested Turk. To Biographer Richard Aldington he was a cad and a bounder-sado-masochistic, hemi-homosexual, selfpublicizing charlatan whose actual role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest...
...rich British protectorate on the north coast of Borneo, a secret rebel army was rehearsing a revolt against the Sultan. Repeatedly, government officials dismissed the story as "another jungle rumor." But last week, in a brief, bloody rebellion, rumor materialized into fact, bringing the threat of a long, nasty guerrilla war in the steaming swamps and forests of the protectorate, and imperiling the prospects of the Malaysian Federation...
...reports from the heart of the barren, remote land last week suggested that a Yemen guerrilla army of more than 30,000 fierce, leathery tribesmen at last was on the move against the rebels-and taking a deadly toll...