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...aeronautical engineer and a lieut. commander in the British Admiralty as well as an experienced writer (Ordeal, Pied Piper), Author Shute makes his conventional story more than just readable, with exciting scenes of air combat, much pastoral warmth and charm...
...Spokane last week a gallery of 10,000, the biggest crowd in the history of the Professional Golfers Association watched the biggest P.G.A. upset since Tom Creavy beat Denny Shute in 1931. Through six sub-par days, the favorite, blond, methodical Veteran Byron Nelson, fought his way to the finals. His opponent there was 29-year-old, balding Bob Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., playing his first major championship while awaiting Army induction...
...some of his "Man Who Came to Dinner" characteristics with him as he takes over the role of a crotchety Englishman caught on the Continent by the war. Englishman caught on the Continent by the War. Although he has thus created a character somewhat different from what author Neville Shute probably intended, he has nevertheless done a beautiful job on a part which, if not written for him, was rewritten by him to suit his own tastes...
...engaged. Roddy MacDowall-the young Hugh Morgan in "How Green Was My Valley"--is Woolley's chief companion on his strange pilgrimage, but Anne Baxter and a number of others are equally effective in lesser roles. There are Nazis barging in and out of the scenes, too, and Shute has wisely refrained from portraying them all as violent, drooling, bully-boys. There is an ingeniously written part of a Gestapo officer that ranks as one of the best minor parts Hollywood has turned out in a long time...
...brush with the Gestapo nearly ends the Piper's tour, but, at least in Hollywood, Englishmen like Woolley always win through. His children's crusade, scripted by Producer Nunnally Johnson from Nevil Shute's novel of the same name, is too episodic for all-out drama, but it is a mellow, amusing, often moving excursion...