Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Island Rescue starts off like an Alec Guinness movie, makes a brief attempt to stimulate some young love, and winds up on a tight little Channel Island populated by "simple" fishermen, German soldiers (most of whom are named Vogel) and Venus...
...purr "I had the radio on" when she posed for her now historic nude calendar picture was after a historic precedent. When Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese and sister of Napoleon, was chided for having posed in the nude for Canova's famous statue of her as Venus Victrix, she calmly stated: "I wasn't cold with a fire in the room...
Island Rescue (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) has a real Venus for its leading lady. She is a goddess among cows, a triumph of scientific breeding, and she lives on the Channel island of Armorel. Since Venus is in calf by champion bull Mars of Mellowbury III, the expected progeny is of vital concern to the British Ministry of Agriculture...
When the Germans invade the island in 1940, Major David Niven is assigned to lead a commando raid on Armorel to rescue Venus. Meanwhile the enemy, headed by Commandant George Coulouris, is preparing to ship Venus to Germany. There ensues a tour de force of arms, with a British submarine braving minefields and Luftwaffe to reach Armorel, an artist hastingly camouflaging another cow to look like Venus in order to confound the Germans, and a battle in which a British destroyer sinks a German E-boat with depth charges...
...humor in Island Rescue sometimes wears a bit thin. But the picture is zestfully acted by a cast that includes Glynis Johns as a pretty A.T.S. private, and Carrefour Buttercup from the isle of Guernesey as Venus...