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Last week the President's announcement brought "utmost joy" at the Vatican. General Clark, now chief of Army Field Forces, was commander of the army that liberated Rome in 1944. An Episcopalian and a 33rd degree Mason, he became a firm friend of Pope Pius XII. Clark will not be a mere Minister, as was his predecessor, Rufus King. His title will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,* and his appointment will probably be followed by the naming of a Papal Nuncio...
...undoubtedly, an interesting movie. Beginning with an unusual and active prologue, "The Desert Fox" flashes back for complete coverage of Rommel's life from the British breakthrough at EI Alamein to his suicide in 1945. James Mason, as the general, succeeds in portraying the character called for by the script. It almost appears possible for a man to be at once a hard, supremely competent Field Marshal and a confused, incredibly native politician...
...Desert Fox brings in James Mason with a glorification of German General Erwin Rommel. At the Paramount and Fenway...
...Desert Fox (20th Century-Fox), a sympathetic film study of the Afrika Korps' General Erwin Rommel, will surprise those moviegoers who have come to accept all Hollywood Nazis as guttural, sadistic villains. Rommel, as played by James Mason, speaks flawless English, is kind to his troops, makes a generous foe and a faithful friend...
...James Mason brings a brooding intensity to the role of Rommel, sharply points up the contrast between his brilliance in the field and his uncertainty in public life. Unfortunately for the pace and excitement of the movie, Rommel is shown too seldom on the battlefield, and then only in defeat. The script, by Producer-Writer Nunnally Johnson, has the competence of journalistic history, but most of the excitement is packed into the picture's opening moments, during an ill-fated British Commando raid on Rommel's North African headquarters...