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Decision Before Dawn (20th Century-Fox), like the controversial Desert Fox, goes behind enemy lines of World War II for a sympathetic view of a German soldier. But unlike Marshal Rommel, the new film's hero is no Nazi who turned against Hitler too late and for the wrong reasons. He is a sensitive young Luftwaffe medic (Oskar Werner) who becomes a U.S. spy out of convictions that outweigh his queasiness at being pitted momentarily against his countrymen...
...story of the dedicated Florence Nightingale. The glibbest was Hesketh Pearson's quick look at Disraeli in Dizzy. The most unabashedly sensational was Ethel Waters' crudely effective His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Onetime Brigadier Desmond Young wrote an uncritically sympathetic life of his wartime enemy in Rommel, and sales proved that the Afrika Korps' brilliant commander still held a place in U.S. imagination. The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering was a much better book than Rommel, but fat Hermann seemed to have faded from public interest. A story that was obviously surefire and proved...
...Port Said, and took over railroad stations, harbors and telephone exchanges. Mechanized infantry sealed off the city of Suez. The commander of Britain's powerful Suez garrison is a tough, combat-seasoned soldier, Lieut. General Sir George Erskine, 52, who won the D.S.O. for helping to repel Rommel at El Alamein (said his citation: "He changed the whole course of battle"). "We are not going to be turned out, forced out or kicked out," he announced. His first move: to isolate Egyptian troops in the Sinai peninsula to the east of the canal...
...documenting Young's theory on Rommel, however, director Henry Hathaway has sacrificed a good deal. First to get time enough to explain why Rommel behaved as Young thinks he did, Hathaway and Nunally Johnson, the producer, move too hastily through the Africa Corps' desert campaign. This made some of the book's best sections and certainly would have had high audience appeal. As it is now, the audience is likely to find the film's major portion less lively and less interesting than its beginning. The last three quarters of the movie are devoted to Rommel's inactive years preceding...
...Rommel, according to the story, first disagrees with Hitler over handling the Afrika Corps, and ends up taking part in a plot to kill the Feuhrer because he is so evil and insane. Rommel and his compatriots want to win the war, of course, but if they lose, they want to go down like good soldiers-not as murderers like their Nazi superiors...