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NIGHT TIDE. In this promising first film by a young writer-director named Curtis Harrington, a young U.S. sailor is lured toward destruction by a Lorelei who lives under a pier in Venice, Calif...
...were Edgar Allan Poe with a megaphone, and most of the time the experiment succeeds. He heightens reality, giving a nightmare quality to commonplace events. Soon even the ripple of bath water begins to sound ominous. In one scene, punctuated by echoes, the pilings under an old pier are transformed into a forest of briny, fearful enchantment...
Once more engineers came to the rescue. The recently opened Berlin Bridge has both its ends on reasonably solid ground. The six sections in between rest on piers that sink continually. On top of each pier are hydraulic jacks capable of raising the bridge as much as 30 inches. Massive roller bearings backed up by other jacks stand ready to compensate for horizontal motion. Fulltime crews patrol the bridge day and night, and when their measurements tell them the structure needs adjustment, they pump oil into the appropriate hydraulic cylinders to raise a section or shove it sideways...
...supporting players, a series of well-worn cliches; are all present to bask in the light of Robertson's omnipresent grin. There is the hard-nosed commander who wants to see action, after spending the last war "hooked up at a pier in Bayonne, N. J.;" the funny cook, the wisecracking old butler, the boobish aide, the guy who knows he's going to get killed, and does. Ty Hardin, as Kennedy's second in command, wears a ridiculous blond beard, but mumbles well. And he's terrific at diving into foxholes. James Gregory, as Commander Ritchie, who finally shoots...
...Alessandro Farnese (Pope Paul 111) was made a cardinal when only 25, led the worldly life of a Renaissance nobleman, and had at least two illegitimate children whom he recognized. Elected Pope in 1534, he appointed a son, Pier Luigi, cardinal and secretary of state...