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Show Mario Film Tells Thrilling Wartime Adventures of O. S. S. The first film based on the hair-raising exploits of the men and women of the Office of Strategic Stra-tegic Services our intelligence agency is now showing at the Mario theater. It is Paramount's thrill-.iarvim?d adventure, "O. S.S." co-staring Alan. Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald with Patric Knowles. John Hoyt, Richard. Rich-ard. Benedict. Harold Vermilvea among other excellent performers. perform-ers. "O.S.S" is a gem of an action film. Never a dull moment, it races along from thrill to thrill, giving the audience more entertainment enter-tainment per foot of film than is generally fund in even the est-paced movies. It features Alan Ladd at his best, out-fight- inp niit.shnntinfT mit-wittintT hie adversaries, and here are many in this exciting tale of sabotage in Nazi-occupied France. Ladd and Miss Fitzgerald are seen as undercover agents of the O.S.S. who, together with two other operators, are parachuted para-chuted into France for the purpose pur-pose of blowing up a bridge to facilitate the D Day landing. The trouble they run into, the tragedies, trage-dies, the adventures should be seen not told about in this column. col-umn. Suffice it to say that they all add up to the most exciting screen entertainment offered in a long time. "O.S.S" has probably had more technical supervision than any picture produced because of Par-amount's Par-amount's insistence on accuracy of every detail, however small. The result is a masterful motion picture. |