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GARY: If you want to suspend your reason for a couple of hours and have a whale of a time, take in The Guns of Navarone. If you've heard the music, or even read Alastair MacLean's bestseller, by all means go all the way and plunk down your coins to see Carl Foreman's version. Though unbelievable, it's spectacular, and with shipwrecks, cliff-climbers, saboteurs, informers, captures, escapes, and explosions, (and Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn), how can you lose...
GARY: One of the most unbelievable -- and entertaining -- war pictures in some time, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE follows closely the best-selling novel of Alistair MacLean to tell the story of a band of saboteurs sent to destroy an emplacement of enemy guns on the Greek island of Navarone. The principals include Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn...
...Secret Ways (Heath; U-l), from the thriller novel by Scotland's Alistair MacLean, is, like most of his works (H.M.S. Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone), a derring-documentary that celebrates courage-for-a-cause. Hero Richard Widmark starts out believing that "everybody's learned to live by compromise," changes his mind after he and the audience have spent 112 minutes of sadism, gunplay, torture, capture and escape, cliffhanging, ledge-crawling, escape and capture. It is easily the most relentless movie chase since The Great Train Robbery...
...second team with Dwinell, Forbes, and Morse are defensemen Tom Cranna of Dartmouth and Ken MacLean of Yale and goalie Rod McGarry of Brown. McGarry and MacLean are seniors; Cranna is a junior...
...Diefenbaker's political priming of what he likes to call "pro-Canadianism"-is the fast-spreading U.S. technique of "split-run" advertising; starting late last year, the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, LIFE and Look opened Canadian-circulation copies to specifically Canadian advertising. Canadian magazines, led by Maclean's (circ. 515,577)-professed to see the handwriting on the wall...