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Cinemactress Terry (Beneath the 12-Mile Reef) Moore, whose widely publicized ermine bathing suit was vetoed by U.S.O. officials as a menace to the cease fire agreement in Korea, showed up wearing standard G.I. winter clothing instead. For her performance, she switched to an ermine cape, then suddenly, while some 1,000 troops shouted approval, she undraped herself to reveal the brief, two-piece fur suit. Next day, orders came by way of Tokyo for Terry to leave Korea on the first plane out of Seoul. Later Terry got permission to stay, provided she stuck to the script and skipped...
Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef (20th Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...
...Greeks sponge on the Conch sponging grounds. The Conchs steal the Greeks' catch. The Paris of the piece (Robert Wagner) then runs away with its Helen (Terry Moore), the daughter of the Big Conch himself. Together they go out to the diver-dreaded twelve-mile reef. The underwater photography here is pleasant, but hardly striking. However, the climactic fight with an octopus is staged well enough, and everything comes epically to an end with a line not even Homer could have written. Says Paris, by way of offering peace to Helen's father...
Paint on the Curves. The burros and Indians in the town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, where the race started, stared in wonder at the invasion. The palm-fringed streets swarmed with the heterogeneous spawn of the automotive age-sleek Ferraris and squat reef Lancias, souped-up Chryslers and Lincolns and Oldsmobiles, petite Porsches, souped-up Fords. Such blue-chip entries as the Lancias even had their own mobile garage to follow them, a huge trailer complete with machine shop and dormitory...
...pilgrims saw a launch. They shouted and waved, but the launch passed them. In despair an old woman fell off the tower into the sea. Hours later the launch reappeared, going the other way. This time its crew spotted the castaways. As the launch hove to just off the reef, one of its Arab crewmen swam to the tower with a line and, one by one, the 14 Nigerians were pulled in. Among the rescued were four women, a four-year-old boy and a baby in arms, but boy and baby soon died...