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Teamwork. Close liaison with U.S., British and Russian missions has bolstered Tito's position. Best known of these liaison officers is 32-year-old Brigadier Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean of the Cameron Highlanders, Conservative M.P., a Scot with a huge mustache and a quiet aptitude for danger, who has been at Tito's headquarters since last spring...
Written by MacLean Russell and Richard R. Rogan with generous and lib contributions by the cast, Rogan staged the production with typical Hollywood touches. Happy Graves did a nice job as stage manager, improvising plam trees out of cardboard and grass skirts out of shredded newspapers...
Snooping, he learns that the cargo is a good hundred torpedoes, enough mines to drive a hole through the seabottom. The Gaunt Woman is a U-boat supply ship, "the bitch at whose dugs they must feed or starve." With the aid of Conrad and Margaret MacLean ("a strapping girl, done up in seagoing style"), Bannon sets about forcing the devils to eat their own brimstone. He succeeds in making the Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says...
...this time the fat was in the fire. Communist Willie Gallacher raised the "Scots Wha Hae" cry* of Scottish nationalism. M.P. Neil MacLean blamed "some confounded fool in the Admiralty" for allowing a famous shipyard to remain idle because of a mistaken idea that it had no engine shop...
MALCOLM S. MACLEAN...