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...French, a hero must have not only courage but also savoir-faire. A 45-year-old mine foreman named André Martinet last week showed plenty of both...
...underground veteran of 18 years in the pits, Martinet was trapped some 220 ft. below the surface when a limestone mine deep inside Mont Rivel suddenly shook, loosing tons of rocks into the shafts. With him were eight fellow workers, most of them younger. "At first we did not dare move," recalled Joseph Cattenoz, 31. "But then André was with us, and he took over." From the first moments of a marathon drama that lasted for more than a week, the short, balding, beak-nosed Martinet was the indispensable man. With him in the lead, the men explored...
True, Ryan is a hopeless martinet-like Alec Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai. He even establishes a gentlemanly rapport with the camp's commandant, who at heart is as decent as Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion. His troubles are with his own men-tough guys like William Holden in Stalag 17, wise guys like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, irrepressible Englishmen like Dirk Bogarde in The Password Is Courage. But Ryan is in this-man's-army, and in the end he proves it by freeing singlehanded all 964 prisoners after joining...
Rock's little woman soon has him flying in circles. When he cashiers his base commander (Barry Sullivan) for ship ping too much sauce, she denounces Rock as a martini-counting martinet...
...King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals and the gulf between father and son, a relationship vividly accented by Paul Rogers' portrayal of a paternal Victorian martinet. Ustinov's conclusions are not startling: that young radicals become old conservatives, that sons understand and forgive their fathers too late; that marriage is more a football, than an Elysian field. The comedy's chief impression is faintly melancholy, that man is a hostile, disdainful stranger to himself...