Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanding officer judged him "limited service material." The C.O. then learned that Capariso had survived 15 months' internment in North Africa, English air raids, shrapnel wounds at Dakar, three torpedoings, 16 days on the Atlantic in an open boat, three days on the Atlantic on a raft with a dead...
Background to Danger (Warner) stars George Raft and Sydney Greenstreet as opposing merchants of menace in neutral Turkey. Raft, as a patent-leathery G-man, comes into possession of a "Russian plan to invade Turkey" forged by the Nazis and intended to drive Turkey into Germany's embrace. With these hot documents the fat Gestapo agent Greenstreet would like to warm his hands. But when he gives Raft the third degree on the subject of the papers' hiding place, the G-man is rescued by a Russian agent played by the supersinister Peter Lorre...
Thus Hollywood assembles a potentially terrifying trio. Unfortunately, they are not given a very ominous score to play. Lorre eventually gets killed off. Raft makes too many narrow escapes from Greenstreet for credibility. And, for the purposes of action, Greenstreet talks too much in his best English accent...
...this, the Japanese stopped shooting. Lieut. Matson hit the water, inflated his rubber raft, climbed aboard it, covered himself with his parachute, went to sleep. An hour later, a crash boat rescued...
...play football for us this coming season and it should be a real show to see him throw those passes for Navy like he did for B. C. When he made the All-American ... I suppose I still could tune in on the games while out on a life raft...