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Beautifully photographed in Technicolor, The Raider is a cold, gripping, North Atlantic tale about a lifeboat full of survivors, a Nazi sub, and a British merchant ship strayed from its convoy. Director Pat Jackson's amateur actors-all real seamen with their own wartime experiences on their minds-are better than greasepainted professionals could ever hope to be. The picture will delight those who are surfeited with the bogus posturing and declaiming of most wartime fiction...
...sailing koster was hardly bigger than a lifeboat; she seemed even smaller when she left the Swedish coast and beat out into the foul weather and seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...
Tenants reacted to all this in the patternless fashion of men making the last clutch at the lifeboat. Some cried that the whole thing was a huge bluff-an apartment owner must prove he is losing money before getting OPA permission to evict a paying tenant. Others argued that no law can keep a man in business if he wants to quit...
...heroine (Merle Oberon), arriving in New Orleans after harrowing exposure in the lifeboat of a torpedoed ship, starts the picture quavering with a nervous breakdown, and soon involves herself in circumstances calculated to pass it on to her audience. She moves upstate, for a rest cure, to a quiet old sugar plantation, run by an uncle & aunt (John Qualen, Fay Bainter) whom she has never seen before. Also on hand are: a chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting...
...lifeboat edged out of the gloom. Its frightened crew climbed ashore at Matane, Que. Able Seaman Sidney Langmead told what had happened...