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...more romantic figure emerged from World War I than the shadowy desert raider in flowing white burnoose known as Lawrence of Arabia. Here was a pint-sized Oxford archaeologist who could outride the fiercest Bedouin warrior, a galloping ghost who had blown up 79 bridges along the Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about...
...most recent historical parallel to Monday's incident occurred during the Civil War, Albion reported. In spring, 1861, a bunch of Confederate soldiers hijacked a coastal steamer and, after an abortive attempt to sneak up on a Union supply ship, turned the passenger boat into a raider...
Against Cornell, the Crimson scored twice in the second period, both times with Big Red players off the ice on penalties, to break a 1-1 deadlock. Next afternoon at Colgate, the varsity coasted to a 4-0 lead before a Raider wing tallied his team's lone goal after taking a pass from his center on an offensive zone face...
...fired his subjects with a fanatic brand of Mohammedanism, and his dedicated Murids, or holy warriors, kept the armies of Czar Nicholas at bay for the next 25 years. As the years passed and the Czar's frustration continued, Shamyl became a European hero. Russophobic Britons forgave the raider his five wives-one of them a Christian captive, well content with her lot-and honored him by dancing the Shamyl Schottische...
Gallantry is spread rather thickly by all hands-Laughton gives grudging tribute to his unseen opponent. Heflin behaves nobly to his captives-and eventually it becomes a little tiresome, even though the viewer knows that it is based on fact. (The German raider Atlantis bedeviled Allied shipping for most of 1940-41, and its captain-now NATO Admiral Bernhard Rogge-was so humane to his prisoners that some of them still correspond with him.) Eventually, the Atlantis is caught and sent to the bottom. The film, for all of Laughton's inspired snorting and Heflin's underplayed "Fire...