MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY
(M.G.M.) "HERE is a good deal that is banal in this piece about U.S. naval airmen operating against the Communists in the Korean war, but the quality of the colour photography, the. matter-of-fact portrayal of the routine hazards of car-rier-borne air operations, and the occasional glimpses into a man’s mind (sometimes it is the mind of James Michener, who wrote the stories on which the film is based) keep the banalities in the background for a good deal of the time. Americans love mechanical detail, and they photograph it well. If you want to know how to get a squadron of jets airborne from a carrier, this film will show you just how the intricate manoeuvre is carried. out-and how they get them back on board again. It will also show you what an unsuccessful deck landing looks like, what low-level jet-bomber attack means, and how impersonal one must be about it to keep sane. Learning these things is not necessarily a comfortable experience, but it has its uses.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 16
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174MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 16
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