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...enough tense action in this British film to keep anyone's fists clenched and at the same time there's no Errol Flynn or take heroism. Add excellent, tight acting and real dialogue, and the result is a perfect war picture. It's the taut story of one English bomber crew, forced down over Holland, and its eventual escape with the aid of Dutch civilians. With little of the shooting and grunting of Errol's "Dangerous Journey", it is stronger on the human side, and that makes it a distinguished movie...
...routine feeling from it. It's routine flight on which the bomber is shot down, and the picture makes you feel it's also routine for the crew to plug ahead, for calm Dutch girls to help them escape, and for British Naval vessels to find them on a floating buoy. Geogie Withers' interpretation of the unassuming girl who smuggles them out of the country leads a list of excellent acting jobs, with the entire British crew and Dutch townspeople a group of real humans...
...force was inexperienced, but it quickly became less so. A gunner drew a bead on a dive-bomber, said: "Here's where I get one for my brother." He did. Captain Sidney Combs, of Lexington, Ky., took cover behind a tank until a land mine exploded under it and injured the crew. Combs amputated the tank captain's leg with a knife, crawled into a foxhole and directed the artillery fire. Pounded by Stukas, the U.S. force pressed on, reached its objective, destroyed enemy installations and withdrew...
...among American military airmen. Silver-haired, deep-chested Frank Andrews is the soft-spoken father of U.S. air power by virtue of his term (1935-39) as first chief of the GHQ Air Force. He was the ranking and most determined advocate of the now-battle-tested heavy bomber...
Their work is of the utmost importance especially in areas captured from the enemy. By quick tests these Soil Engineers decide whether a field is safe for Flying Fortresses or just pursuit ships, and on them rests the responsibility for a half a million dollar bomber...