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Officer Fitzgerald was not the only man to wander down the wrong tunnel in the steam tunnel maze; his rescuers themselves had at one time fallen behind and temporarily lost their way. Like the layout of University buildings themselves, the tunnels were designed on a cowpath basis...
...Massachusetts State House in Boston was haunted by a fox for a whole week. Night watchmen would spot him skimming along the corridors and noted he kept fat on State House mice and leftovers from legislators' luncheons. Finally the fox was cornered in a basement tunnel hideout, doped with chloroform-impregnated cheesecloth on a long pole and later released in rolling New England woodland...
...saves the town from mass riot. This is an implausible touch, but in introduces what might almost be another story--a dramatic rescue operation based on the Kathy Fiscus tragedy. Excellent night photography highlights these scenes as Negroes and whites work together in the glare of automobile headlights to tunnel through to the girl. This brings a fast moving climax to a picture that's good entertainment, and something to think about...
Ford's home was honeycombed with tunnels, where he could escape or hide in event of danger. When Bennett built a home near Ann Arbor, Ford got him to build a tower with a secret door "as an escape for the children," and connect it with a hidden tunnel in the yard. "However," writes Bennett, "the secret exit was never used. At the end of the tunnel, I kept my lion and tiger cages...
Typical of the English, author Williams did his best to make the hair-raising escape sound undramatic, and film director Jack Lee has kept the movie equally dry. Leo Genn, Eric Steele, and David Tomilson in the feature roles dig a forty foot long tunnel, escape from the camp, and make their way to Sweden with the air of cricketeers playing a weekly match. The fact that neither author, director, nor actors could make the story unexciting is a tribute to the two British officers themselves...