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r Left: “ WaodTs 30.000" — desolate Half ay a (Hellfire) Pass in Libya, with (inset) General Waoell Below: John- nie Singer, Gerald Rex, Leslie Fuller, Anthony Holies and MarionGerth in “Front Line Kids." in particular to the part played "by those maritime maids-of-all-work—the de- stroyers. The destroyer, H.M.S. Torrin, was in fact the star of the film, and her triumphs and vicissitudes formed the background of the story. And though all that happened to the ship would not be possible in the story of any one destroyer, as Noel Coward stated when he announced his plans for producing the film, the Torrin was symbolic of them all, as were the men who served aboard her. “ The First of the Few," by the way, was the third wartime film which Leslie Howard has made, all of them with different phases of the war as their background. The first was “ Pimpernel Smith,” in which he was the retiring, absent-minded college professor whom the war induced to lead a double life. Because of his belief in the theory that the progress of humanity depended upon the brains of a few men, he made it his business to spirit these away from the Nazi power that preached and practised brute force and denied the right to freedom of thought. Europe, in its suffering and heroism and shame has held stories that no fiction writer would have dared to invent. " So This -was Paris ” was the story of the treachery and espionage, greed and apathy, cunning and corruption, that led to France’s downfall and took us to the entry of the Germans into Pans. “ The Foreman Went to France ” had the same period as its setting—and here again real life heroism inspired it. There was such a British foreman. It was not a story of military heroics, naval endurance or aerial dash—it was a story of the dogged persistence of a stouthearted foreman who surmounted seemingly insuperable obstacles and took in- credible risks to bring back to England the precious machinery from a French factory. “ We Shall Rise Again ” had Belgium under its German oppressors as its mainspring. Based on Oscar Millard’s sensational book. “ Uncensored," it was the story of the heroic band of Belgians who are producing a national paper for loyal patriots under the nose of the Gestapo. “ The Day Will Dawn ” was another drama inspired by the increasing resistance of loyal patriots against the Germans—this time with Norway as its background. Nazi Germany itself has been shown on the screen as a country in which its own people resent the Nazi rule of brute force. “ Underground ” was the story of two brothers—one an enthusiastic Nazi lieutenant, the other an idealist secretly struggling to overthrow the Hitler regime. Nor was the Burma Road neglected. It was touched on in “ They Met in Bombay," and it was the background of “ China Caravan." If we have no idea of the conditions, both civilian and military, in this war-torn world, it is certainly not the fault of the films-. W. B. “ One of our Aircraft is Missing —the bomber crew, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Williams, Hugh Bor- den, Eric Portman and Bernard Miles, escape to sea with the help of Googie Withers. Russian ski troops in “ 50 Degrees Below." Below : In “ Those Kids from Town," Charles Vic- tor and Jeanne de Casalis welcome the evacuees. 87 II