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Danny's eleven consists of himself and ten other ruffians, all former members of a commando-like World War II unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. The old soldiers are played by such members of Sinatra's off-screen Clan as Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr., and a jollier lot has not tripped the screen since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Their idea of a veterans' meeting is not to salute the flag and then sit down to play pinochle; they decide, with the help of an imaginative racketeer (Akim Tamiroff...
...make this one of the more entertaining films of a not-too-entertaining summer. The ending is clever, and what precedes it has a little of everything, including a little wit. There are square jokes for squares (Red Skelton, playing himself, is unable to cash a check) and Clan jokes for Clan fans (Sinatra, disguised in blackface, asks Sammy Davis Jr.: "How do you get this stuff off?"). And for students of the ridiculous, there is a memorable doctor's-office line. Says ailing Richard Conte to a solemn-faced physician: "You can give it to me straight...
...mistaken for a woolly-headed aborigine, is still something of a national figure in Australia, though he has never traveled Down Under. But Bing was less a mystery voice in Sydney last week after his brother, Orchestra Leader Bob Crosby, 46, got to reminiscing about the Crosby clan. Actually, said Bob, "I was 14 before I knew Bing was my brother and not my father." Why had Bing not come to Australia for a hero's welcome? "He'll never visit Australia until they put planes on tracks. He's just afraid of heights." Does...
...Running Sir: My spirits cringe at the possibility that, with bad luck, the next President of the U.S. will consult the "Kennedy clan" and the "family war councils" instead of his Cabinet. "Tribal law" will dictate policies on foreign affairs, national government, taxes, farm prices, et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum...
...Earpiana, Waters has discovered that Virgil and Allie never bothered with a wedding.) But over and over again, Allie's few belongings were packed into a Studebaker wagon as Virgil drifted west from Council Bluffs to Tombstone, where he joined forces with the rest of the Earp clan...