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Dream of Eating. They caught two small fish and once Zamperini grabbed a baby shark by its tail and flipped it into the raft. By the same kind of desperate alertness they caught three small birds and four albatrosses which lit innocently on their rubber boats...
...raft scenes are not so good. Mechanically, there are excellent moments: the initial crash, the soft, strangling sound of the plane as it founders, the angelic strangeness and beauty of the rescuing plane-a machine apotheosized. Other bits are finely conceived: the aching silence as a gull circles the starved men, its ghastly squeal when it is caught. And there are earnest, dignified performances, notably those of MacMurray, Richard Conte and Lloyd Nolan. Yet it is never quite possible to believe that the oceanic anguish is more than a stone's throw from all the food and drink Hollywood...
...road work for three-week stretches in louse-infested clothes, to permit studies which played a part in the development of DDT, the powder which saved bombed Naples from a typhus epidemic (TIME, Jan. 10, June 12, 1944). Five other C.O.s spent days on a life raft off Cape Cod, to determine, among other things, the effects of drinking sea water under shipwreck conditions...
Time passes happily enough in the gilt and plush saloon of silky-smooth, steel-fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft...
...Norman Rockwell's familiar, realistic The Four Freedoms, which hangs at the entrance, to Josef Albers' Growing, a pure abstraction of irregularly shaped pink and green rectangles, hung in a corner of the farthest gallery. Between these extremes are such items as Philip Evergood's Rubber Raft, a war footnote in which two helpless, parched men sprawl on a raft surrounded by voracious sharks; Atlantic Pastorale, a surrealist ballet-in-seaweed by Leon Kelly; Darrel Austin's spellbinding half-dream of a mountain lion, The Great Beast; William Cropper's satirical Art Patrons...