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NEW FLILAIS IN TOW
"ANGELS ONE FIVE"
YORK: Jack Hawkins, Michael
Denison, John Gregson, Dulcio
Gray.
SCRA'VBLE. scramble, angels
one. five, bandits at four
o clock. hawks in the sun, tally
ho from films Just like
this one such RAF talk has be
come intelligible to most of us.
It is a worthy. straightfor
ward, conventional film tribute
to the first of the few In their
finest hour.
The story is more about fliers
than flying, and nearly all the
excitement is on the ground.
The best sequence is an enemy
air raid on a Hurricane base.
.H. awkins, . Denison, Gregson
and others are good officer
types. We see them In the
pilots' quarters, the opera
tions room, the bar and occa
sionally in the cockpit.
They are all inclir!ed to lark
about like wild schoolboys, ek-.
cept one !Gregson), a serious
type,. rather intense .about
everything.
The theme does grip,, but the
British..tendency to under
statement is inclined to .be
overstated.
"SAN ANTONE"
REX: Rod Cameron;. Arleen
Whelan, Katy "Jurado,- ForreSt
Tucker.
THIS Is a competent Western
.with-all the usual cowboys,
eavalry. Indians. cattle; lynch-.
The station commander (]ACK HAWKINS) has a drink with the squadron leader's wife (DULCIE GRAI') in "Angels One'. Five." Help
The station commander (]ACK HAWKINS) has a drink with
the squadron leader's wife (DULCIE GRAI') in "Angels One'.
Five."
ing, shooting. riding, singing.
ad fighting-and a difference.
Usually the women in West
erns just lurk about patiently
while the men fight, then come
up for a quick kiss at the fin
iEh. don't they?
. Not these,... though. They
pitch in themselves They are
in al1 .the action, and puit on
their own female fight.
The villainess. (Arleen- Whe
ian)' is hissed more- :than
kissed. .
It .is' civil wartime. -&A Texas
rancher (Cameron) has orders
for:-an Army officer (Tucker)
to give him military escort for
a cattle herd.
He stops the officer from
hanging his Mexican friend
Chino who has been provoked
b. the officer's flancee. the
aforementloned villainess. into:
kissing her.
The officer and the rancher"
fight. The villainess throws
herself at the rancher but he
gives.her, a slap to go on.with
and goes off with-his Mexican -
sweetheart (Katy Juralo) . -
SAfter. many, more comalica.
oona the rancher- flnally
avenges Jimself on. the. Q -eet
rather subtly by. Dairlng -his
off with the villalness. '
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