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...piper skirled a march for the Highlanders in the British front line. Hell broke over El Alamein: from hundreds of hidden positions artillery laid down the heaviest barrage yet seen in the desert. After six hours infantrymen moved toward the Germans' shattered positions. R.A.F. bombers and fighters attacked with the ground forces. The advance units found their way through their own minefields, marched gingerly into the German fields. Soon lights began to twinkle close to the ground: they were guttering flames in gasoline tins, marking alleys through the German fields for the main body of troops and tanks...
...film with a war background is no novelty. But one with as refreshing and original an approach as the "Pied Piper" is a welcome addition to any motion picture season. It presents a smooth synthesis of amusing escapist fare, straight adventure material, and enough of what might be termed a "message" to satisfy the commonly expressed desire to see movies which don't ignore some of the vital issues...
...argue a lot about what were fighting for in this war. What it meant to one man in terms of simple pleasures and the ordinary events of everyday living is the message--and an excellent one--of the "Pied Piper...
...Letting students pick their own courses, which he blames on the late great Charles W. Eliot ("that Pied Piper of Harvard who 50 years ago had all the mice and men of American universities trailing behind him as he played the tune of electivism...
...Pied Piper (Monty Woolley, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, Roddy McDowall, Peggy Ann Garner; TIME...