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...platoon football, with its shuttle-relays of offensive and defensive teams, keeps fans frantically pawing their programs to find out who's who. This year the All-America pickers, too, suffered from the confusion. If a man played solely on offense-and never made a tackle all season-could he still be an All-American...
Breakthrough (Warner) travels with a rifle platoon of the ist Infantry Division into the Normandy invasion, the hedgerow fighting and the Saint-Lô battle that launched the Allied blitz through France. From Twelve O'Clock High it borrows the problem of the commander who cracks under the strain of identifying himself with his men; from Battleground, the familiar roster of civilian-soldier types; from Sands of Iwo Jima, the technique of intercutting its scenes liberally with real combat footage and battering its sound track with thunderous explosions...
...scent of grease paint proves much stronger than the smell of cordite. All the fog of war cannot hide the writing and acting shortcomings in the characters of the picture's command-weary captain (David Brian) and his young platoon leader (John Agar). Unlike Battleground, which it most resembles, Breakthrough makes no bones about recruiting its soldiers from Central Casting and assigning them to spell the carnage with a few vaudeville turns. One infantryman is a vaudevillian who does imitations of movie stars; another is a musclebound health faddist whose casual rejection of a man-eating mademoiselle...
...morning there was an attack in company strength on the northeast side of Chunchon. We ordered the rest of the civilians out of the city. Then there was a diversion attack on the south side, perhaps no more than a platoon. Then it was quiet and we thought we could probably hold out until the 31st arrived. But soon the main attack...
When the Tigers give up the ball (which is rare), the big men go to work. The most widely publicized of the defen- sive platoon is six-foot, four inch, 225 pound Holly Donan. The giant tackle gained All-Eastern honors in 1949 and is being boomed as an All-American this year. At the other tackle slot is Brad Glass, 202 pounds, a rugged sophomore who made his way to Old Nassau after spending a year at Northwestern...