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...built-in radome-but it's hard to put much stock in the character he portrays: a Japanese Polack with a Russian accent and an Arab girl friend (Daniela Gaubert). As for Richard Widmark and George Chakiris, they manipulate their seaplane like a couple of toddlers playing oogah in the old man's crate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Rescueteers | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...oogah! and away they go to rescue the crew of a Japanese freighter. On the way Chakiris and Widmark sleep at the stick for as long as 20 minutes, while the customers fossick through expository flashbacks. No sweat, however. Everybody can plainly see that the search plane is parked on a sound stage and the Japanese are floundering in the studio tank. In this film it is the moviemakers who are really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Rescueteers | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...gardens danced with lilacs and daffodils, and folks admired the new paint job that glistened on the twelve-story Mendenhall apartment building (preparation, some gossiped, for the filming of Edna Ferber's Ice Palace). In a cocktail lounge a jukebox played Squaws Along the Yukon ("Oogah, oogah, oogah, which means I love you, won't you be my honey so I can oogah, oogah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Land of Beauty & Swat | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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