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...year it is the filthy 1,500, a mixed bag of World War II regimental rejects who hate the brass en masse. As in Dozen, they are given a last chance to shape up or ship out. Under the brutal direction of their hard-nosed but inexperienced commander (William Holden), they decide that valor is the better part of discretion, and begin playing soldiers in earnest...
...killing. While artillery shells resound overhead, the men-now called "The Devil's Brigade" by fearful Germans-begin their assault on a steep mountain in Italy, the peak of which is enemy territory. There is room at the top, but along the way many good devils die, and Holden comes to realize the cost of his merciless goading. As a mainstream tough-and-rumble military movie, The Devil's Brigade-which is based on actual events-offers few new sights or insights. After nearly three decades of World War II films, it is hardly surprising that Hollywood...
Tryouts for both choruses are being held in Holden Chapel this spring and during the first week of classes next fall...
...clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse. But bad as the films were, they were also an undergraduate school through which passed some able and attractive players, among them Rita Hayworth, Ray Milland and William Holden. For Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), Oscar Levant actually composed an original opera...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-11:10 p.m.). For the occasional viewer who may have missed it first time around on TV (some 71 million tuned in), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), starring Alec Guinness, William Holden and Jack Hawkins...