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...matter what brutalities they might commit nor how queerly they might act, Nazi Storm Troop leaders under Adolf Hitler have always banked on his reputation of never letting an old comrade down...
...watched Vice Admiral Frank Hardeman Brumby of the Scouting Force fight it out with Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves of the Battle Force. Admiral Brumby's lighter Grey Fleet was assumed to have the Caribbean under guard. Admiral Reeves's Blue force, with 1,200 marines on four troop ships, was out to take one or all of these strategic points: Ponce, San Juan, Culebra, St. Thomas. To an extent never before attempted, the fog of war enveloped the Caribbean. All communications were restricted, running lights extinguished. With Very rockets, destroyers torpedoed battleships. Battleships fired back with searchlights. Overhead...
...Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau Opal shoots herself dead. Von Rentzau marches in with a handful of troopers to inform the professor that because he had a son killed in the War, the high command has reinstated him at the university. Bearing his wife's body onstage, Professor...
...fact which may call up a few unpleasant ghosts. But, be advised, there are no women getting in the way, there are no beturbaned sheiks mouthing fury into their ratty whiskers. The "Lost Patrol" is the plain story of how eleven soldiers out of twelve in a British horse troop met their deaths in Mesopotamia, 1916. And, thanks be to somebody or other, the movies have discovered that simplicity is a good horror, even a good dramatic, medium...
Take, for example, the treatment of death in this movie. Death opens and closes the covers of the story; it is in fact, the all pervading, the only certain, element. Yet it strikes always swiftly, always surely, always, as such things go, with an impressive lack of fuss. The troop is winding along the desert; the lieutenant in command is shot down from ambush, and with him to the grave, go the men's orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed...