Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...committee came in for gentle gibing from some of the newsmen, but it raised morale and helped to avert a serious health crisis. It may also have saved some lives. Hussein's trigger-happy Bedouins were constantly threatening to shoot photographers who tried to film the fighting from the hotel. The committee finally persuaded the photographers to stow their cameras until the situation improved...
...Strut. The first half of the film is devoted to apple-pie softness and bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs...
Robert Payne, manager of the theatre and one of the arrested, said yesterday that the theatre had been given no warning about the film. "We were visited by Mr. Fitzmorris from the Board of Solicitors and someone from the police department who asked to see the advertising and the tickets. We were informed that we should have a uniformed officer at the door to check I. D.s.... Since nothing was said about the film, we took it for granted that nothing was wrong," Payne said...
...police did, however, identify themselves before the showing. After viewing the film, the police made the arrests and closed the theatre which had scheduled another showing that night. Cambridge detective sergeant Duncan S. McNeil said that the police waited until the end of the show "purposely." "Not so we could see it, or give them any leeway, but so we would not have to tangle with 300 people...
McNeil said the film was "not very good quality, that's for damned sure...