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...Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film takes on an extraordinary dimension of heroism without heroics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1953 | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Four Feathers is a classic story of heroism and the definite desert extravaganza. Although there are no harems nor luscious Arabian princesses, thousands of Fuzzy Wuzzies and General Kitchener's valiant army stage a race riot that ought to please the most sadistic audience. Korda has taken full advantage of the possibilities of Technicolor to focus his camera on open wounds at every opportunity...

Author: By L. HARPER Mockmouse, | Title: Four Feathers | 4/30/1953 | See Source »

DOCUMENTARY: NBC's Victory at Sea, for "26 superb programs dramatizing the heroism and sacrifice in the great naval engagements of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Winners | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...economic aid, had been set back an estimated three years. Another 250,000 acres of farmland were flooded with salt water in England, and more than a million left homeless. But the worst North Sea storm in 250 years left in its wake, as well, some stirring sagas of heroism. One such was that of U.S. Airman 3rd Class Reis Leming, of Toppenish, Wash. Said one admiring Englishman last week: "If anybody ever deserved the bloody George Cross, he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flood's Wake | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...Shelley, Yeo-Thomas committed a series of exploits that have made him a legend in his own lifetime, a classic case of heroism under the rose. In The White Rabbit, the case is related by British Novelist Bruce (Father Malachy's Miracle) Marshall in the sharp, quick, vivid style of a battle report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alias Shelley | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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