Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though beautiful if perhaps accidental timing, the Navy's current screams for more carriers are being backed up by a better-than-average battle movie which is almost exactly half documentary. Describing the career of a naval aviator form 1923 to the present, "Task Force" is actually the story of the aircraft carriers, which the Navy claims won the last war in the Pacific and insists will win the next...
Soon after, the film switches from black-and-white to technicolor and becomes extremely exciting. Most of this second half of "Task Force" consists of actual battle scenes filmed by the Navy; they are reminiscent of the wartime "Fighting Lady." the scenes which show a busy combat formation center deep inside the carrier are intensely interesting, and the views of the carrier deck, jammed from side to side with blazing aircraft against a backdrop of explosions and tracers in the deep blue sky, are unforgettable. Cooper and the other actors are skilfully blended into these newsreels between flashes of exploding...
Fortunately for most of the weekend invaders, "I Was a Male War Bride" has moved from the Metropolitan. This citadel of fine films now presents "Task Force," starring Gary Cooper," a sweeping cavalcade that sweeps (sic) the world's oceans to bring you the rich, human story of the men who stood by what they believed in--AND THE WOMEN WHO STOOD BESIDE THEIR MEN." Includes secret Navy combat films if that's your idea...
...Perle Mesta," reported the Luxembourg correspondent of the London Daily Mail, "is in a fair way to blunder a path into the hearts of the 300,000 people of this microscopic Grand Duchy . . . Impulsive, dictatorial, generous, fussy and friendly, Mrs. Mesta approached her job like the task of arranging a rather large tea-party complicated by the presence of some quaint foreigners . . . The people of Luxembourg are pleased as punch to have her here...
...Task Force. The ups & downs, through the years, of U.S. naval aviation, with a factual core of spectacular Navy combat film and fictional trimmings involving Gary Cooper (TIME...