Commandos Strike at Dawn (Columbia) is the coolest, most workmanlike job of fighting that Hollywood has yet produced. This authentic picture of the devil dogs of this war has none of the phony nourishes or mushy fantasy of most Hollywood war films; in it is hardly a melodramatic line. A Norway raid is carried out with letter-perfect realism. Yet for all its realism the raid is strangely unexciting.
One reason is that Commandos unwisely attempts to combine two pictures in one. Picture No. 2the raidis overshadowed by Picture No. 1the stirring story of...
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