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...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...alone from the air in a 400-mile-an-hour warplane. But if the pilots did indeed sink a transport of the "Conte di Savoia class," then it must have been either the 49,000-ton Savoia herself or her companion (but not sister) ship, the 51,000-ton Rex. Either would be the biggest merchant vessel sunk by military action during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Sovoia Sunk? | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Probably the best presentation of the Summer Theater this season, "The Emperor Jones" nevertheless contains a number of flaws which remain to be smoothed out. Rex Ingram was definitely good, a though his laugh resurrects disconcerting images of Lucle Lucifer, Jr. of "The Cabin in the Sky," William Mendrek, although acceptable in a mediocre sort of way, has done much better with cockney accents in past presentations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

Once Davy Jones has appeared aboard and it is known that Neptunus Rex and his staff will board the ship the next day, the great event is under way. For approximately 24 hours the landlubbers go through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 8/3/1943 | See Source »

...Seniors and more appropriately for the Quickies the time has come. On your cap device there are two hands on the torch the sea Hous are bowed, and the dolphin has finished his dive. Neptunus Rex will soon become a reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 8/3/1943 | See Source »

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