Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-term dream of airplane designers, the jet-powered vertical take-off plane, became an official reality last week. The Air Force announced that Ryan Aeronautical Co. has test-flown successfully its jet X-13 VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), putting it through all its paces after 18 months of partial tests...
...Director Anthony Mann and his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity that makes every theater seat feel like a foxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...
...Director Anthony Mann and his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity that makes every theater seat feel like a foxhole"; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...
Korea, Sept. 6. 1950. The North Koreans have broken through the Naktong line. An American platoon is isolated, surrounded. Says the lieutenant (Robert Ryan): "We walk out." Then comes a stroke of luck. A jeep comes roaring across an open field. Passengers: a bitter, combat-weary sergeant (Aldo Ray), and his shell-shocked colonel (Robert Keith), debris of a distant battle. The lieutenant takes over the jeep at gunpoint, loads the ammo on it, forces the sergeant to march with the platoon to Hill 465. But is the divisional HQ still there...
...sergeant are literary, to say the least. But the characters are not. They typify believably the two best kinds of fighting men. The lieutenant is the steady, intelligent, responsible leader of men; the sergeant is the gifted killer. On Director, Anthony Mann's restraining leash, Actors Ryan and Ray work with a held-back intensity that admirably suggests the low-grade, chronic anxiety that fighting men run like a fever...