Word: heflinism
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...carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers-wigs, parasols and all. When a target is sighted, the Atlantis steams close by, runs up the swastika and lowers the false packing cases which hide its guns. The raider's captain, played by Van Heflin, is a gentleman who, in his student days, rowed against Cambridge, and he tries his best to fight a decent...
Gallantry is spread rather thickly by all hands-Laughton gives grudging tribute to his unseen opponent. Heflin behaves nobly to his captives-and eventually it becomes a little tiresome, even though the viewer knows that it is based on fact. (The German raider Atlantis bedeviled Allied shipping for most of 1940-41, and its captain-now NATO Admiral Bernhard Rogge-was so humane to his prisoners that some of them still correspond with him.) Eventually, the Atlantis is caught and sent to the bottom. The film, for all of Laughton's inspired snorting and Heflin's underplayed "Fire...
Five Branded Women (Dino De Laurentiis; Paramount). "I did not loave a German," the proud beauty (Silvana Mangano) sneers at a stern chief (Van Heflin) of the Yugoslav partisans. "I loaved a man!" But the partisans aren't having any of that. They have already mutilated the German sergeant (Steve Forrest) Silvana was committing treason with, and they are obviously determined to cut her up too. A grimy partisan approaches her with scissors drawn. Van twists her arms behind her back. Her bosom heaves. A horrible thought flashes across the spectator's mind. Then they...
...farmhouses, steal boots and guns from dead Germans, shoot two Home Guards who try to rape them, ambush a Wehrmacht reprisal party, and finally join the same band of partisans that had punished them. Happy ending? Not with 70 minutes still to go. "I must warn you,'' Heflin thunders at the fresh recruits, "that our law forbids sexual relations." Reason: "Bad for morale." Penalty: death. The idea is to sublimate sexual desire into ballistic aggression against the enemy. But the idea does not really work. After banging away for several months. Heroine Mangano turns to Hero Heflin...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose contributes The Cruel Day, a play set in revolution-torn Algeria. With Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Cliff Robertson, Phyllis Thaxter...