The emphasis remains on straight docudrama, the bigger story of a humongous, unmanageable naval encounter between dozens of warships and hundreds of airplanes. Director Jack Smight keeps the cast in motion and gives each star little bits of business. On the periphery of the big discussions are r...
Shakespeare wasn’t impressed, describing a scene near Dover involving a dangling child, he wrote in ‘King Lear’: How fearful and dizzy ’tis to cast one’s eyes so low. The crows and coughs that wing the midway air show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down hangs one that gathe...