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CONQUEST OF THE SOUND BARRIER
Nowhere is the spirit of adventure more alive today than in the air. Venomously- equipped fighters screech their way across the skies like moteors. Jot bombers fly the Atlantic in record time. That beautiful silver bullet so aptly named Comet revolutionises civil flying
standards.
Swept-back wings, flying triangice, rocket motors have brought us to the threshold of even more miraculous speeds-provid- ed air frames and man can stand up to them.
Pioneers risk and lose their lives almost daily. And the unceasing struggle of aircraft manufacturers, de- signers and test pilots of the new jet age to conquer· the vast, unknown space beyond the barrier of pent- up air which occurs at the speed of sound never fails to stir the imagination.
That 18 the striking theme which David Lean, film the brilliant British director to whom we owe
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SOME OF THE BEST
By DILYS POWELL
social conscience.
documentary
on
Western the
some hours of reverie and search I have put down the names of the films which I remember as having given me most pleasure.
..
"Greed," "into Not long ago there ap- Chaplins, peared in the columns of lerance" and "Le Million.") The Sunday Times a list of Or you can make a list of re- presentatives: representatives for the "best" films of the past countries and artists, for comedy, Some I have not seen for many Though without any of the fifty years.
history, tragedy, musical, domes years: 1 cannot be sure that heroics or glamour of war, it
The eminent jury was in
tic drama
and should enjoy them as well today.
The list includes one or two of contains morc thrills and
ternational, and so was the In the
the "best"; and occasionally the Buspense than any other nim on
International twelve flying I have ever seen. Much list: "The
Battleship "La Grande Illusion" (a flm I pleasures evolted have been of of it takes place in a modern Potemkin," "The Gold fall to admire) would be the war the grander sort, but the majority room, in sound-proof test cells, "City Lights," "La Grande "All Quiet flying laboratory, Its control Rush," "Bicycle Thieves," representative; a far better, I are smiling flims.
should have thought, would be
DILYS' CHOICE In the cockpit of jet aircraft on nerve-wracking test flights, and Illusion," "Le Million," Front."
Here, then, is my choice-not, it roams delightfully, if only too "Greed," "Hallelujah," and, BECOMES ENDLESS by the way, in order of merit: briefly, over Europe.
ninth tying for
place
"Tol'nblo "Broken Blossoms"; There is a remarkable per- "Brief Encounter," "Man of But once you begin choosing David:" "Easy Street," as well formance by Sir Ralph Richard Aran," "Die Dreigroscheno endless. There is no room in a Lights" "The Italian Straw Hat
representatives the list becomes as The Gold Rush" and "City son as the ruthless, blunt Northper" and "Intolerance." dozen for the Swedish cinema, as
"Lo Million"; Keaton's well as Country alreraft industrialist, Examples, you see, of the and zone therefore for the young "The General" and "The Navi- whose life is dedicated to the Russlan, French, Italian and Corbo in
"The Atonement of gator" and a ravishing story of a conquest of the new world of German cinemas;
vendetta which I once saw in pre- Gosta Berling" supersonic flight and who is ponderance of American aims;
Paris under the title "The Laws Our own translations of propared to sacrifice even his
and, scraping in late in the day, Shakespeare and America's of Hospitality and have never own family to his vision.
a pair of British films; one of achievements in the film of rediscovered: Herold
"Speedy"; Murnu'a "Sunrise": of creation an crime, the Western, the film of night at the Opera"; "The
Truth" Awful
Nothing And it has photography of a
"Henry V no Sacred". "The The other-well, I have stopped "Hamlet" or
Palm Beach great
and stirring beauty: far
trying to argue about "Brief "Scarface" or "I am a Fugitive," Story" and "nil the Conquer above the cottonwool banks of Encounter" since I was slienced nothing by John Ford, not even
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"L'Atalante Hero"; Vigo's Clouds; planes hurtling down by a young man who told me "The Grapes of Wrath." And Dumbo" "Stagecoach"; Hua- "Citizen Kana" almost vertically towards the about the arrangement of its not a trace of Disney.
"Ninotchka": earth; rocket trails of vapour trains in receding diagonals. But I am straying from the ton's "The Malteso Falcon": across the skies; and shots of A good many of the interna- monuments and the "best" and Riefenstahl's Olympic Games grass and bushes scorched and tional dozen above
The Loul- tom out of the ground beside a monuments; as a matter of fact to the enjoyable.
qualify as 1 and myself in danger of turning im: "Farrebique Man Out! runway by the terrific blast of a agree by any standards with whether the experts themecaves "Jour de Fele"; "Orpher"; "Top jet engine as it jumps into life, the selection of six out of the would be content to live for ever Hat": "On the Town.""
"The Sound Barrier" will also twelve, and that in the quarrel with the best, or whether they be remembered for its imagina-some cinema comes near to what night not join me in hankering tive use of sound. The screech the diplomats
STIRRING BEAUTY
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D
attack
must
be left out: no
ent complete after other pleasures.
"A
I wonder siana Story":
I will not venture to catalogue
of the Job engines, Indeed, agreement, (To save correspon- dominates the whole film; first dence let me say that my six, the films which I might call the "Potemkin," the
an cerio whistle, devoloping into a tortured, whining crescendo of almost unbearable pitch and then rumbling away into a terrifying roar as the aircraft flash past.
The angry rattling and shud- dering noise of the plane as it approaches the speed of sound. The crack like the explosion of 4 y.2" na
the machine bursts through the sound barrier and the shock waves hit the ground a sound now becoming increas ingly familiar ovor Southern England. The swish of air as the test-planes whistle by the glass-walled control room. And the play-back of the pilot's voice, cool and matter-of-fect, reading his instruments over the radio- ns he dives almost from 40,000 feet-heard
vertic in a darkened, almost deserted hangar hours after hls death. These are but a few of the haunting effects David Lean has achleved.
The charactors — all but Richardson's manufacturer-are inevitably dwarfed by the machines and the sound, despite an intelligent and adult script by that able playwright Terence Rattigan, and such competent. actors as Ann Todd (the in- dustriallet's daughter
whose brother and husband are victims of crashes), Nigel Patrick and John Justin (the test pilots) and
(the Joseph Tomelty designer),
chief
:
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