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They Wanted Prisoners. The chief of the islanders gave pantsless Captain Davis a sarong. Other natives ignored the Japanese fire, plied the Marines with coconuts and coconut juice, told them where the Japs were concentrated. Three times during the day Jap bombers came over, did more harm to their own forces than to the Marines. U.S. machine-gunners on the shore destroyed two planes which landed in Makin's still lagoon...
Pardon My Sarong (Universal). Abbott & Costello, the outrageously low comics who are Hollywood's best-selling double feature, have made this picture, under various titles (Buck Privates, Ride 'Em Cowboy, etc.), about once every three months since their cinemadvent a year and a half ago. Like their aged-in-wood gags, it now has a chiefly historical charm...
With two production women tugging at the amplifier box, the inquirers moved upstairs, without Kleeman. As she set foot on the second floor, Kilte gasped, audibly, and recovered to report, "A girl just walked out in a sort of abbreviated sarong effect... dark hair, glamour, an da drooping cigarette... What are you studying?" "Russian," "Why Russian?" And the answer came, low and quiet. "I want to live there." And then she was gone, back into her little room...
Sturges' whipping boy is one John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), director of such comic hits as So Long Sarong, Hey, Hey in the Hayloft, etc., who unexpectedly rebels, wants to make a sociological epic named Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Sullivan, outfitted as a tramp, goes on the bum to find out about life. His bosses, who came from that side of life, know all about it and want no reminders, have him tailed by a busload of studio publicists-just in case...
...came to the Plymouth for its one week stand. "It seems my clothes got too disarranged in the hot love scene at the end of the second act. Well, that's been toned down so my clothes stay put. I guess I'll just have to wear a smaller sarong...