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Raymond Massey is wasted in a thin role as head villain and Mammy Hattie McDaniel (also wasted) is dragged in by the car with the rest of the romantic accoutrements identified in Hollywood with the Old South...
...components: 34 uniformed newsmen and photographers who arrived with a big convoy of U.S. troops, plus such veterans of the Battles of Java and Singapore as A.P.'s C. Yates McDaniel, U.P.'s Harold Guard, the Chicago Daily News's much machine-gunned George Weller-a total of over two dozen correspondents, photographers, broadcasters, newsreelmen...
...shaking my typewriter, and my hands, which are wet with nervous perspiration, tell me without the need of an official communique that the war ... is today in the outskirts of this bastion of empire. . . . Don't expect to hear from me for many days, but please inform Mrs. McDaniel . . . that I have left this land of the living & dying...
...next seven and a half days were packed with equally nervous moments. His ship, last to leave Singapore harbor, was bombed with deadly efficiency by the Jap, was soon in flames. Yates McDaniel, propped against a coil of rope, took notes, stopping only to help fight the fires. A jam-packed lifeboat finally carried the oar-weary, bailing survivors to Bangka Island, five miles away. At dark, the tide so low that lifeboats could not float within a half-mile of the beach, the weary party began wading to deep water and rescuing launches from a nearby rubber plantation. Said...
They did. Across 400 miles of Sumatran jungles the weary party straggled in trucks. From northwest Sumatra to a port of embarkation for Batavia they traveled in pony carts, spurred on by native tomtoms pounding out an air-raid warning. At the port Yates McDaniel saw "the most beautiful sight I ever expect to see a British destroyer hull down on the horizon, steaming full speed toward the harbor." The destroyer carried them to Batavia, where, for the first time in eleven days, Yates McDaniel could file his story, then crawl into...