FOLLOW THE SUN
(20th Century-Fox) ()NCE upon a time you had to be dead before anyone would bother writing your biography; nowadays, other things being equal, you don’t need to go as far as that. But if Ben Hogan, the U.S. Open. golf champion, hadn’t half-killed himself in a car accident a couple of years ago it is hardly likely that this screen biography would have _ been made. Follow the Sun, however, is the story of a comeback, for even when half-dead Hogan refused to lie down. He struggled back on to his shattered legs, won the U.S. Open again in 1950, and took it a third time in June last. In its basic facts, Follow the Sun comes straight from the: record, though I suspect that there has been a little manipulation of events to sharpen the climaxes. It is the kind of film that will be enjoyed mainly by those whose interest in golf matches Hogan’s own (Glenn Ford plays the part). So far as it records the pressure of competition in American professional sport I found it a numbing experience.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 19
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183FOLLOW THE SUN New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 19
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