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Richard S. Price '63 and Richard H. Kohn '62 were the victors in Adams House, Seamus P. Malin '62 and Arthur F. Alpert '63 in Dudley, Travis J. Williams '63 and David A. Rotwein '62 in Dunster, and Howard J. Phillips '62 and Jack D. Molloy '63 in Eliot.
When the film finally does get down to historical cases, it proves to be shamelessly inaccurate. Two leading characters. Colonel William B. Travis (Laurence Harvey) and Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark), are respectively nastified and sissified almost out of recognition for theatrical effect. The Mexican army, apparently in deference to the...
Some of the characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn...
Travis Linn (Parson Manders) gives the most convincing performance. His long speeches, often addressed to the painted fjords at the rear of the stage, are often flat, but, in his shorter lines, he managed to convey the Parson's fatuousness.
The class of 1929 was one of the most distinguished ever to graduate from the old Army Air Corps flying school at Kelly Field, Texas. Stirred by Charles Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris in 1927, many promising young men flocked to Kelly to win their wings. Among the...