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...widescreen, full-color process known as Super-Technirama 70. Spartacus runs for 3 hr. 25 min., including a brief intermission, employs 100 major sets, 8,000 extras and far more big names than most marquees can carry-among them Kirk Douglas. Sir Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. Peter...
Under Ten Flags. Captain Bligh roars again, as Charles Laughton takes the part of a World War II British admiral, and Van Heflm plays the captain of a German raiding ship that Laughton tries to track down. An acceptable sea chase...
CINEMA Under Ten Flags. The German Navy's Van Heflin v. British Admiral Charles Laughton in a better than fair sea-fight thriller, based on one of the more curious naval footnotes to World...
Under Ten Flags (Dino de Laurentiis; Paramount), a somewhat better than fair sea-fight thriller, brings back to the screen the most feared man ever to wear the uniform of a British sailor. As Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton roasted the barnacles off Fletcher Christian 25 years ago, and he is still awesome as he bites off his words, chews them three times and then spits them out as if he did not like the taste. This time, as befits his age and rancor, Actor Laughton is a shore-based admiral who, toward the beginning of World War II. directs...
Gallantry is spread rather thickly by all hands-Laughton gives grudging tribute to his unseen opponent. Heflin behaves nobly to his captives-and eventually it becomes a little tiresome, even though the viewer knows that it is based on fact. (The German raider Atlantis bedeviled Allied shipping for most of 1940-41, and its captain-now NATO Admiral Bernhard Rogge-was so humane to his prisoners that some of them still correspond with him.) Eventually, the Atlantis is caught and sent to the bottom. The film, for all of Laughton's inspired snorting and Heflin's underplayed "Fire...