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Show Screen Drama Of Corregidor Is Shown At Ritz "Corregidor needs no comment from me. It has sounded its own story at the mouth of its guns. It has scrolled its own epitaph on enemy tablets. But through the bloody haze of its last reverberating reverberat-ing shot, I shall always seem to see a vision of grim, gaunt, ghastly ghast-ly men, still unafraid." In these burning words, General Doulas MacArthur epitomized the heroism of the Americans and Philippinos who made that epic stand at what the noted English poet, Alfred Noyes, called "The Blood-Red Rock, The Living Rock" that was the keystone of Bataan. It was inevitable that such a glorious page in the history of the Global War should eventually come to the screen that the world should see some of the heroic deeds of those "grim, gaunt, ghastly ghast-ly men, still unafraid" who were with MacArthur and Wainwright and who carried on to the tragic end even after MacArthur was called to Melbourne. It remained for Producers Releasing Re-leasing Corporation to translate to the screen the historic events of those tragic twenty-eight days as American and Philippine troops fought to the last against overwhelming over-whelming odds out-gunned, out-manned, out-manned, raged, and starving. With a distinguished cast headed head-ed by Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi and Donald Woods, "Corregidor" comes to the Ritz theater on Tuesday, Tues-day, Wednesday and Thursday. In this P.R.C. production, which was six months in the maikng, the producers have adhered strictly to documented facts and while recording re-cording in stark realism the actual fighting, the privations, self-sacrifice, and indescribable deeds of heroism on the "Rock," have woven wov-en into the story the poignant drama dra-ma of a woman surgeon (Elissa Landi) in love with two men surgeons sur-geons (Kruger and Woods.) The story is really seen through the eyes of the woman, and the unique love triangle is played out against the dramatic episodes that culminate culmi-nate in the finals surrender of "The Rock." "Corregidor" Is a title that every ev-ery studio in Hollywood tried to obtain the rights to. The Hays organization finally decided in favor fav-or of Producers Releasing Corporation, Corpo-ration, for they had announced intention in-tention to produce such a picture immediately after the fall of the "Rock," and had an authentically correct script ready and approved by the War Department at Washington. Wash-ington. A knowledge of the past helps understand the probable course of the future if it will do you any good. |