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Outside, people pressed their noses against the glass. A few yards from the gayly lighted band stand, children pranced about a set of reindeer. "That one's Rudolph." "No it ain't. It's Prancer. HE don't have a red nose...
...husband decide in the first act to kill the lover, in the next act to kill the wife, in the last act to kill himself. The husband is much the most rewarding member of the trio-a hypochondriac who sneezes just when he intends to shoot, a red-nosed reindeer with, deep down in him, a bit of the wolf. British Actor Alan (The Winslow Boy) Webb plays the part so delightfully that he is even able to raise some hopes for the play. But the play grows increasingly harried and hack. And though David Niven does a nice...
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Spike Jones; Victor). One of 30 current recordings of the song which was No. i on the small-fry hit parade last year. Jones packs away his customary fireworks, turns out a good disc for kids...
...Theodore Honey, an obscure research engineer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Stewart plugs patiently away at an experiment to prove his calculations that the tail assembly of the Reindeer, a new transatlantic plane, will snap off from metal fatigue after 1,400 flying hours. In a trance of pure science, he is unperturbed by the fact that Reindeers already in passenger service will reach the estimated breaking point long before his laboratory proof can be ready...
...quite what to make of the absent-minded researcher, his new boss (Jack Hawkins) orders the experiment speeded up, dispatches him to Labrador to look into the crash of one of the new planes. Widower Stewart says goodbye to his gravely precocious daughter (Janette Scott) and shambles aboard a Reindeer. The trip starts brightly enough; a pretty stewardess (Glynis Johns) pampers him, and Movie Star Dietrich dozes just across the aisle. Then he learns that the plane is just past its crucial point of strain...