Word: saboteurs
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...this fight simply and conversationally-how their six boats became an infuriating menace to Jap warships and transports, how they fought to keep them afloat even when hulls were ripped open by coral reefs, how their gas tanks were clogged with wax put in their gas by some unknown saboteur. Sent out on patrol from Bataan, to fight lone actions against enemy cruisers and destroyers, Squadron 3 sank "probably a hundred times [its] own combined tonnage in enemy warships...
...This Gun for Hire," though given second billing at the U. T., easily surpasses its dyspeptic counterpart. Alan Ladd grimly and effectively stalks his way through a difficult and interesting role, with various and sundry saboteur doing their darndest to stop him. Ladd himself makes the picture what it is, and his sensitive portrayal of a different kind of ruthless killer marks him an actor to be watched. Veronica Lake is here, too. There must be something nice to say about her presence in the film, but all we can think of right now is--well, Veronica Lake is here...
...Saboteur Forster, 39, is a burly, hook nosed Yorkshireman who spent four weeks planning his Burmese masterpiece and nearly three years waiting for such a chance. Ever since the war's outbreak he had been in oil-rich hot spots, scheming their destruction: in Rumania's oilfields, where the Gestapo nabbed him (but had to release him because Rumania was neutral); in Iraq, when pro-Nazi Rashid Ali El-Gailani took over; in the Dutch East Indies, where he made mistakes he learned not to make a second time...
...Burmese job Forster kept just ahead of the enemy. Under his direction, 20,000,000 lb. of machinery were blown into scrap, 600 oil wells became useless and generators, transformers and instrument panels were sledge-hammered into pulp. Sir Reginald called Engineer Forster "the greatest saboteur in history...
...saboteur trial: "There is much secret evidence here, as you know." Then, finally and frankly: "I think the public has a right to know what goes on in our trials so far as it does not involve security...