Cinema: In a Great Big Sandbox

Station Six-Sahara. Not again. Not a re-re-re-release of that steamy old Lustspiel about several hairy males marooned in an outpost with Jean Harlow. No, this time it's different. This time several hairy males are marooned in an outpost with Carroll Baker. But never mind. Carroll doesn't turn up till the show's almost half over, and till she does it's pretty interesting.

The show is interesting principally as a play of personalities, a study of men among men. Four figures dominate the action:

Peter Van Eyck, a big blond German who looks like the Sportspalast sculpture of Superman, plays the chief engineer of an...

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