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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...
...first case. Actor Crawford runs into resistance from a torpedo's well-kept woman (Martha Hyer). "I don't like men staring at me before lunch," she bridles, but soon goes on to tell what it's like to be a lamster's widow. "I thought it would last forever, like one of them watches you don't have to wind. But we sure done a lot of windin'." For a while the extortionist plays in-and-out-the window with the hot-car ring, but the game soon ends with the Feds...
...opposition Socialists, Nye Bevan agreed with his party chief that China's Communists seemed far more relaxed than those in Russia, who all "seemed petrified with fear in the presence of Malenkov." He called again for "peaceful coexistence between the nations of the world" and sought to torpedo the SEATO conference in Manila. Somewhat irrelevantly, he added: "There are ideological differences between Communism and Socialism, just as there are between Socialism and the United States, but we do not believe these differences can be properly settled by war." When a Socialist brought up the subject of tuna fish irradiated...
...shines all the more brightly in comparison to the shoddy Democratic period of stubborn, stupid and shortsighted political obstruction . . . [The Democrats are] bankrupt of political conscience and any sense of responsibility to the people . . . Never trust your city, your state or your nation to destructive demagogues, who try to torpedo sound programs and have nothing themselves to offer. Don't ever let them get elected. They will wreck any community and bankrupt any government they ever control...
Celine's language, however, makes a crisis seem monotonous. Note his description of a bombardment scene: .". . .Rraapl. . . Whah!. . . Rrango!. . . Whah!. . . Rroong!. . . That's about the noises made by a real molten torpedo. . . the most enormous! In the heart of a black and green volcanol. . . What a burst of fire!. . . Another bomb grazing us! goes exploding right into the current. . . The blast rocks us. . . Your guts all ripped out. . . Your heart popping into your mouth...