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...SALERNO. Writer Carl Foreman arrived in Italy last week with a large cast and crew determined to correct his earlier failures. Somehow, says Foreman, The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Guns of Navarone got out of hand, and although they were blazingly successful, failed to deliver his central message: "I feel that all we won in the last war was the license to have another. I am trying to reflect the bitterness and disappointment my generation feels. There's a larger theme, that any war, big or little, just or unjust, always degrades the victors equally with...
...into The Second Longest Day. But there is no cause for alarm in the lofty moral tones of Carl Foreman's third inaugural. Foreman, by his own definition, is just a born failure. The Victors should be just as tremendous a flick as The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Guns of Navarone. If the message comes through, it will be prepaid...
Like a Death Notice. Today every theater owner in New England envies Ben Sack's brand of ignorance. Sack persuaded Hollywood to give him first-run rights in Boston to such films as Bridge on the River Kwai by offering a guarantee of $100,000, four times the top offer of his competitors. He pours out $600,000 a year to plug his shows by television, radio and massive five-column newspaper advertisements. ''Looka that," he says scornfully of a rival's smaller ad. "It's like a death notice...
...every moviegoer knows, Gregory Peck and David Niven blew up the guns of Navarone, and Alec Guinness destroyed the bridge on the Kwai. But in this picture, the late Jeff Chandler effaces himself so deftly that his star billing fades, and what is left is a memorable portrait of the late General Frank Merrill, carefully sketched from his long-stemmed apple-bowl pipe all the way in to the heart that survived a thrombosis during the campaign and the spirit that was beyond the reach of disease or the enemy...
...Best touch: the two Hayleys, on report for squabbling at camp, are trotted off to a detention cabin. Following them is a line of marchers, each aware that she has been gotten rid of by her parents, merrily whistling the concentration camp march from The Bridge on the River Kwai...