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Flying Tigers (John Wayne, John Carroll, Paul Kelly, Anna Lee; TIME...
Ever since famed Soprano Henriette Sontag first sang these lines in 1854 at a gala premiere arranged by Mexico's flamboyant Dictator Santa Anna, Mexicans have sung them as their national anthem. But the man who composed the rather operatic music to which they are sung was practically unknown. His name was Jaime...
...Spanish bandmaster, was brought to the Mexican capital by Santa Anna. When irate peons chased one-legged Santa Anna out in the revolution of 1855, Nuño left too. Tired out perhaps by a musician's lot in upsy-downsy Mexican politics, Nuño later settled down to the less turbulent life of Buffalo, N.Y. There he ran a small music academy in the 1870s and '80s. There, in 1906, he was buried...
...story, part pulp dramatics, part pure action, is that hardy perennial about the squadron commander (John Wayne); his friend, the nurse (Anna Lee); the rookie who gets killed (William Shirley); the oldtimer who gets grounded (Paul Kelly); the drunk who is given Another Chance (Edmund MacDonald); the show-off individualist (John Carroll) who learns, at last, what the fight is about, but not until he has played hob with the squadron's morale, materiel and lifeblood. This simple stereotype proves adequate to convey some of the true power and meaning of simple men doing a life-&-death job together...
...they are worth. John Wayne is a rudimentary actor, but he has the look and bearing, unusual in his trade, of a capable human male. As the squadron commander, he is able to make his habitual inarticulateness suggest the uncommunicative competence that men expect in their leaders. Anna Lee, after three sleepless nights, is still able to suggest a Beautyrest. Too many Japanese pilots get the same wound, by which they bleed photogenically at the mouth. But when the dragon-headed planes are off the ground, and fighting, Flying Tigers is a good show to see. For the combat sequences...