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...patience with the U.S.-"The only America I like is the America of Whitman, Thoreau and Emerson, and that never really existed"-scatological Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, 69, slipped into London making noises about chucking it all. "If I had my time over again," he confided, "I wouldn't be a writer or an artist or anything like that. I'd be a shoemaker, a fisherman or something humble. Nowadays our work has no relation to our lives. It's stulti fying. All work is degrading, demoralizing and crushing to the individual...
Leached out of a novel custom-written for the studio by Stuart Cloete, the story begins in 1837, when small parties of hardy Boers were setting out on the great trek from Cape Colony to the Transvaal, a thousand miles to the north. The hero (Stuart Whitman), an N.C.O. in the British cavalry and an s.o.b. in everybody's book, deserts with two buddies (Ken Scott, Rafer Johnson) and hitches a ride to the interior with a wagon train of Dutch Voortrekkers...
...Actor Whitman plays Vivaldi on a penny whistle and tries to look like Pan, but unhappily he looks more like Peter Pan. Juliet Prowse looks like Leslie Caron with muscles and, perhaps because she is a native of South Africa, also looks ashamed of the mess she's in. Massey is gassy. The only object of real interest on the screen is Rafer Johnson, the Olympic decathlon champion, here appearing in his big Hollywood role. Most of the time...
Actor Johnson just stands in the corner of the screen, as far as possible from the hero-when they stand together. Whitman looks sort of puny. When at last somebody speaks to him. Johnson looks startled, makes a reply that does not appear in the script...
...lucrative little Western Pacific which Marsh wants for the Santa Fe. A Southern Pacific-Western Pacific combination, charged Marsh, "would not even be in keeping with a plan to consolidate Western railroads into as few as two competing systems." Echoed Western Pacific's own President Frederic B. Whitman: if the ICC approved the SoPac's plans, "they would do it on the basis that a rail monopoly is a good thing...