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...character who is not strong, sensitive and noble, is a Marine sergeant whose unit is chopped to pieces during a Korean war skirmish. The only officer dies, and Poitier takes over, despite a near mutiny by Paul Richards, a race-baiter who calls him "night-fighter." and Alan Ladd, a surly type who has little use for Negroes, and who is also jealous because he had outranked Poitier until a recent demotion...
...Chinese tank crushes Ladd's leg, and guess whose blood sustains him during an amputation? There is barely time for a scene heavy with symbolism, as Racist Richards queasily watches the corpuscles flow from Poitier to Ladd. Then the Chinese attack in force. Poitier shoos his men and Actress St. Clair out the back door of the farmhouse. Refusing to leave Ladd, he grasps a BAR and stands off the baddies until his bullets...
...film as it stood was not going to make history or much money. The solution was to ring in two bit-players-Ingemar Johansson and Mort Sahl. Heavyweight Johansson sings a campfire song prettily in Swedish, and his two basic expressions (faintly amused and faintly serious) beat Actor Ladd's range by one. Comic Sahl, the only warrior shown who looks grubby enough to be a real G.I., very nearly saves the show with one line. He cheers his mates up with a few jokes during a lull in the battle, then remarks that, seriously, things look very dark...
...item, from which some scholars have traced the rise of the Western to its current dominance of the American intellectual scene (others, it must be admitted, feel that the Western as we know it today is a subtle attempt to blend Humphrey Bogart with the American Tradition) has Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur and Brandon DeWilde in the starring roles...
Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Children's Surgery at the Medical School, will receive the 1959 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for distinguished achievement in the field of cardio-vascular research" in Philadelphia Sunday...