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Pierre Fresnay, Daniel Gelin and Lucienne Bogaert as the Rectory housekeeper in “ Isle of Sinners," a moving French film dealing with a little island left for a time without a padre, whose place is taken by one of the islanders. Pacific, to prove his theory that the people of the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands could have come out of the East— that is to say, from the west coast of South America. The raft was built in exactly the same way as the Incas of fifteen hundred years ago built theirs. Poetry, too, has been used as the basis of films—Alfred Noyes’ “ The Highwayman ’’ and Longfellow’s " Evangeline.” Sport, ballet, opera, all are grist for the film mill. And some of the most thrilling films of all have been made of real life adventure, such as The Dam Busters, from Paul Brickhill’s novel of his wartime experience in bombing the Moene dam ; Murder Inc., a reconstruction of an actual occurrence in America, the organising of murder as a business; and Hoodlum Empire, based on the Kefauver revelations of highly organised crime. Right: Hurricane aircraft of 1320 Squadron (The Pimper- nels) fly over Southern England. These aerial scenes from ” Angels One Five ” were photo- graphed with borrowed aircraft! There are now only two air- worthy Hurricanes in Britain. Both are seen in the picture. One is the R.A.F. machine which leads the annual Battle of Britain fly-past, the other is the last Hurricane off the production line, which belongs to the manu- facturers, the Hawker Siddeley Group. Members of the " Kon Tiki ” expedi- tion with the model of the raft—Erik Hesselberg, Herman Watzinger, Thor Heyerdahl (its leader), Knul Haugland, Torsten Raaby. Top of page, left hand : Building the balsa wood raft for the four thousand mile journey across the Pacific—a scene from " Kon Tiki.” John Gregson, Dulcie Gray and Humphrey Lestocq in Angels One Five," a story of the Battle of Britain.