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...FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA by Bertram D. Wolfe. 457 pages. Stein...
...Curlew shoots down a squadron of Nazis in his plane, cleans out a machine-gun nest with a single grenade, gets the Victoria Cross from Winston Churchill, and wins the adulation of the rest of the gang. In reality the other boys despise him for his friendship with Mark Stein, a Jewish refugee from Austria who is attending the school...
...spoiling for excitement, the boys challenge a rival gang to a fight. Stein becomes frightened and runs away; Lewis, the gang leader, decrees that he must be court-martialed and shot. Stein is shown the rifles and the live ammunition, and is blindfolded. Blank cartridges are loaded into the guns-or are they all blanks? This climactic tragedy brings on the only good scenes in the film-scenes in which the raw horror of their deed gives macabre substance to the performances of the adolescent cast. The point, as in another current film about British schoolboys, Lord of the Flies...
Like Goldreich, the other arrested whites were also prominent in South Africa's intellectual community: Lawyer Robert Hepple; Dr. Hilliard Festen-stein, a noted medical researcher; Engineer Dennis Goldberg; Architect Lionel Bernstein. Among the nonwhites seized was Walter Sisulu, onetime Secretary-General of the banned African National Congress and one of the country's most wanted...
...JOSEPH STEIN Executive Producer...