Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based on a play by Hugh Hastings, Crest tells the plain tale of a minor scientific project set up by the British navy. A dozen officers and men, including three from the U.S. Navy, are sent to a rocky outcrop off the British coast with orders to develop a torpedo that will carry a new and highly sensitive explosive. As the camera grinds away at men and officers, it also grinds into the moviegoer's face the long, quiet pain of existing beneath a higher purpose. The work consoles what the isolation irks in the characters, but between...
...those who have attacked the book since publication are former AEC Chairman Gordon Dean and many leading atomic scientists, including Enrico Fermi and Hans Bethe. The comment of Dr. I. I. Rabi, present chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, is a sample: "A sophomoric science-fiction tale, to be taken seriously only by a psychiatrist...
Modest Prince Rainier was quick to disclaim any credit for the bag, which he said had been ready and waiting for him on a pier in Conakry: he had merely transported them, not captured them. But he had many another adventurous tale to tell-of spearfishing in the shark-infested waters off Dakar, of a near-drowning as he shot underwater pictures during a raging Atlantic storm, of a 1,200-mile trek through French Guinea and of the difficulties involved in helping his Negro valet purchase a wife in a native village (price: 200,000 francs...
Actually, the film's sentimentality is not too much above the television "Life With ..." level, but it is done with such adroit good taste as to be never offensive or obvious. Mingled with the edifying tale of an artisan's development into a junior robber-baron is enough humor to make Hobson's Choice one of the year's better comedies...
...adaptation of Thurber's fairy tale will be done by Lucy Barri '55, Sarah D. Pietsch '57, and Wendy Robertson '55, and will contain both pantomime and narration...