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...Minh's advancing Communists closed a siege ring around Laokay, last French outpost in northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed...
...story begins by giving its hero, U.S. Surgeon Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 5 minutes to live. At a mountain outpost, the government's apologetic hatchetman (Jack Hawkins), a charming, articulate villain, tells Fairbanks he will die in "a shooting accident." While he waits, Fairbanks and Writer-Director Gilliat's facile camera go back to tell how he got into such...
Ernst Reuter, indomitable Mayor of Berlin, is one of the few authentically big figures in Western Europe, a fearless, consistent foe of Communism who meets the enemy without flinching or compromise. Long before other Western leaders, he saw his city in its true role, as Europe's outpost of freedom. He rallied his people in the critical months of the Red blockade. As an ally of the West, he looked good then. Now that Korea, like a lightning flash, has shown what may happen any time in Europe, his figure on the international scene bulks bigger than ever before...
...Europe is Germany. The key to Germany is Berlin, and not since the Russian blockade of 1948-49 has the outpost city seemed more menaced by the Red domain that surrounded it. Under the Kremlin's goad, East Germany is arming fast in the name of a united (i.e., Communist) Deutschland...
Hollywood Star Playhouse (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Richard Widmark in Outpost...