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Show "Dive Bomber" Forms Thrilling Saga Of The Air Force Timely as tomorrow is "Dive Bomber," the new picture which the Rivoli theatre will show starting Tuesday. The big Technicolor Tech-nicolor special tells the story of the Navy's unsung heroes who fly more for ' science than for glory and who made possible the development of divebombing. "Dive Bomber," not only pioneers pio-neers a thrilling brand new (to the screen) story field, it sets precedent prece-dent in a lot of other ways. Fred MacMurray, borrowed from Paramount, is co-starred with Warners' own Errol Flynn, and billing is an even-Stephen matter. MacMurray is the one who does the flying, dies the hero's death. Flynn is a medico, working with "Dr." Ralph Bellamy to solve the mysteries of what happens to men in the stratosphere; black out, high altitude sickness, aeroembolism, aeroembol-ism, night blindness etc., etc. He plays the role straight, on the serious side. One of the biggest scenes in the picture goes to Louis Jean Heidt, an able actor, well established but a stranger to most audiences until they see him and then say "Oh yes, I remember that fellow in . ." MacMurray, killed off late in the story, naturally doesn't get the girl, played by exotic-looking newcomer Alexis Smith. Neither does Flynn. In fact she doesn't "get" anybody in the picture. She's a divorcee, out for a good time with almost any man in uniform. And in the picture all the men are too busy with -naval aviation matters to give her more than a quick kiss and a pleasant brush off. "Dive Bomber" has another definite bid as the picture unique. Being filmed as it was with complete com-plete navy cooperation and under strictest navy scrutiny to make certain that every single thing was right, it has had six high-ranking high-ranking technical directors, three of them commanders, one a captain cap-tain (Captain George D. Murray of the aircraft carrier Enterprise) Enter-prise) and two flight lieutenants. Because the navy gave full cooperation, co-operation, millions upon millions of public dollars worth of planes, ground equipment, building facilities, facili-ties, and landing fields, not to mention the U. S. S. Enterprise itself, were turned over to Director Direc-tor Michael. Curtiz and "shot" by the color cameras for the action-packed action-packed film. |