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Titulo: The Red BeretAño: 1953
Pais: Reino Unido
Director: Terence Young
Prductor: Irving Allen
Elenco: Alan Ladd; Leo Genn; Susan Stephen; Harry Andrews; Donald Houston; Anthony Bushell
Guion: Sy Bartlett; Richard Maibaum; Frank Nugent
Musica: John Addison
Fotografia: John Wilcox
Duracion: 88 min.
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Alan Ladd is the focus of this story based on the wartime raid on the German radar station at Bruneval. The raid was a combined services operation and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Parachute Brigade was led by Major 'John Frost' (Major Snow). An RAF radar expert, Flight Sergeant C.W.H. Cox (Sergeant Box) accompanied the raiders to tell them what to take back to England. (http://www.imdb.com)
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Movie Review
The Red Beret (1953)
At the Criterion
H. H. T.
Published: December 31, 1953
Among other things, World War II highlighted history's most formidable human bird to date, the parachutist commando. Except for an occasional sideswipe, the screen rarely has chosen to spread its cameras, and wings, accordingly for an authoritative, tingling comprehensive view of the subject. It would be a pleasure to find that the British, with their superb airborne record and succession of fine war films, had achieved the same in "Paratrooper," now at the Criterion. Such, however, is not the case.
For although the fragmentary training sequences remain the best and most provocative yet photographed, this Warwick Production starring Alan Ladd, supported by a strapping cast, and tinted in excellent Technicolor, dims highly significant vigor and valor in a lax and pedestrian frame.
The picture opens, aptly, with a bang, in scouring the ruthless jump and combat conditioning of a "stick" of trainees "somewhere in England," as they undergo test balloon plunges, backbreaking jujitsu, barracks friction and the indescribable prelude to that first hurtle downward. And the stinging impact of these scenes, extending to at least one frenzied raid on Nazi-held soil, may be attributed mainly to Terence Young's ferociously impersonal direction. Little wonder that the Criterion's balcony sitters yesterday morning, predominantly male, husky and clearly spellbound, perched well forward about half the time.
However, the core of the matter turns out to be an overly solicitous, predictable study of an unintriguing lone wolf, an American-born Canadian who sulkily antagonizes his buddies, openly resists promotion, and finally emerges a superman hero. In scripting a Sy Bartlett adaptation of Hilary St. George Saunders' book, "The Red Beret," Frank Nugent and Richard Maibaum can claim some pungent, lifelike dialogue. But this crisp detachment generally sidesteps an over-all focus that might have scratched the hero's less insular, more interesting comrades, and charts a pleasant, standard idyl with a sympathetic WAAF and that last-minute transfiguration.
Also, the action contains a spate of giant-size cheese holes, including the unchallenged, brightly moonlighted raid descents, and a rousing climax that has Mr. Ladd detonating an enemy minefield with rockets from a horizontal bazooka. No kidding.
On the whole, Mr. Ladd, as the protagonist, does a reasonably terse job. As his commander. Leo Genn seems a bit effete. Susan Stephen and Harry Andrews are particularly convincing in their roles, and Donald Houston, Anthony Bushell, Patric Doonan and Stanley Baker lend capable assistance. But the grand, flying start, at least to one spectator with a few licks aloft, doesn't justify all the spiraling, devious corn that follows. (http://www.movies.nytimes.com)
