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...about to be tried by the Allies. On New Britain, in 1942, he had authorized the bayoneting of 140 Australian prisoners. But the Colonel, according to his peculiar code, was a man of honor; for him there was only one possible course: suicide. He could not commit hara-kiri because his samurai saber had been confiscated by the enemy. Death by drowning or jumping in front of a train would be improper. He decided to end his life by starvation and exposure (the weather was sub-zero...
...little humor through pirate ships and sultans' palaces. Very young moviegoers will doubtless eat it up. Oldsters who have already taken this romantically oriental tour time & again will not be surprised when the hero (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), with a perfectly straight face, addresses the heroine (Maureen O'Hara) as "Ah, Burning Bright. . . O Woman of the Roses...
...often enough and loud enough to please even his most insatiable fans ; popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether she acts...
...fill in the awkward pauses between the trumpeting; the crooning, a style show full of gorgeous models and a big classics v. swing concert by a full symphony orchestra, a rudimentary plot is occasionally visible. The only interesting part of this plot is Miss O'Hara's version of the reliable old ugly-duckling-into-swan routine...
Born. To William Wyler, 42, short, swart director who graduated from bang-bang Westerns to a closer walk with art. (Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver), and Margaret Tallichet Wyler, 30, almost Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: their third child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: William Jr. Weight...