AWAY ALL BOATS
(Universal-International ) G Cert. N the Pacific the seamen, soldiers and airmen of the United States fought from Midway onward the ereatest (and
the bloodiest) amphibious campaign in history. A score of films at least have so far celebrated some phase or other of that struggle-some of them were good, some middling, others bad. The best so far-The Caine Mutiny-was a psychological study, rather than a war history. None at all so far has matched the heroism or the horror of those days. Away All Boats barely makes the middling grade. It taught me something about assault transports and landing craft, and I encountered some battle sequences that are by now tolerably familiar (the kamikazes are almost old friends), but few of the characters ever existed outside the lush sentimental imaginations of the scriptwriters.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 31
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136AWAY ALL BOATS New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 31
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