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...Stones, who go in for big disasters (they bought and sank the old Ile de France to make The Last Voyage), also record the panic of an entire town, collapse a real train and a real timber trestle "420 ft. long and 200 ft. high." Yet, disappointingly, the actual sounds of collapse were so implausible that the moviemakers had to resort to studio fabrication, recording the noise of a bent spike being pulled out of a thick board with a crowbar and replaying the sound in an echo chamber at one-third its normal speed. Like the movie itself...
...Riou battled cops in the streets. Thrown into reform school, seemingly incorrigible, he soon taught the Marxist gospel to 100 other inmates and then led them in an unsuccessful attempt to escape. That episode landed him in solitary confinement, manacled wrist and ankle. Last week, on Haiti's Ile de la Tortue (Turtle Island), Roger Riou was no longer fighting cops. Instead, he was ministering to the people's spiritual needs and physical ailments. The ex-kid brawler is now a Roman Catholic priest as well as a physician...
Marx v. Machetes. Roger Riou's father, a chef on the liner Ile de France, was a rabid Communist, his mother also a dedicated Red. So thoroughly did they train their child that Roger was selling the Communist newspaper L'Humanité on sidewalks at the age of nine. At twelve, he was militating in a Communist youth gang, apparently convinced on his own that Communism was the answer to mankind's problems. During the long hours of his stretch in solitary at reform school Roger began to doubt Red doctrine. Later, the sympathetic director...
Appointed pastor of Ile de la Tortue in 1947, Father Riou saw that the island's 12,000 inhabitants, living six miles from the mainland, had not even the barest medical facilities. On arrival he came across a peasant woman who, having given birth to twins, was cutting the umbilical cords with a machete. Riou opened a crude dispensary and was immediately swamped. He built a room with 15 floor mats on which the sick could lie. After returning to France for a fourth year of medical school to complete the training he had received as an army medic...
...Titanic. The script takes advantage of its fictional freedom, as the script of A Night to Remember (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959) could not, to focus its interest and excite its pace. The scenes of destruction are particularly explicit and dramatic: most of the film was shot aboard the old Ile de France just before she was junked in Japan. And yet, in its total effect, The Last Voyage lacks an element essential in all great disasters: dignity. Indeed, the idle depredation of a noble old ship, for the mere sake of salable sensation, may seem to some moviegoers an absolute...