Says MR: GORDON WILLIAMS in the 41 BRITISH OWNED AUSTRALASIAN POST" 'AWAY ALL BOATS' has been compared with The Cruel Sea' and 'The Caine Mutiny: But there can be no comparison. Add it to them, if you ike, and make a trilogy, but AWAY ALL BOATS' borrows from neither and Dodson owes pothing to Monserrat or Wouk: There Is far too much richness in 'AWAY ALL BOATS to allow more than a meagre savoring here. There are far too many threads In the tapesty to do more than glimpse at a few in this review. This is war story. But the war while it provides the setting, the orchestration, and the decor is not dominant. It is the great catalyst changing, decomposing, ennobiing the people who sail in the Belinda, according to their measure and their quality_ AND HERE IN THE FILM IS THE MEASURE OF THE BATTLE CRY Of THE PACIFIC FROM THE LIVES OF THE BRAVE AND THE LOVES OF THEIR WAITING WOMEN AS DRAMATICALLY INSPIRING AS THEIR DEEDS OF HEROISM AS EMOTIONALLY ELECTRI- FYING AS THEIR ROMANTIC HOMECOMINGS To THEIR LOVE- LONESOME WOMENI Color by TECHNICOLOR In VISTAVISION TURNING THE TODE Alf Away INVASION FROM THE Au SHORES OF NEW ZEALANDI Boatst UUenal International OF THE South PACIFIC THE BATTLEGRY JEFF GEORGE JULIE LEX CHANDLER NADER ADAMS BARKER Co-STARRING KEITH ANDES RRARD BOONE Jock MAHONEY NEW ZEALAND SIMULTANEOUS 3-CITY PREMIERE, OCTOBER 19th: AUCKLAND ST . JAMES' CHRISTCHURCH MAJESTIC DUNEDIN ST. JAMES' WELLINGTON OCT. 26 MAJESTIC (Approved for General Exhibition) Away : 1o)$
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 17
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253Page 17 Advertisement 1 New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 17
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