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| Si tous les gars du monde… France 1956 |
M Jaque is taking a vacation from sex in this latest film… Rather than beautiful women, he is buzzing about radio “hams” who sit at their sets in the dark of night-time and flash urgent messages all over the world. – Bosley Crowther, New York Times Directed by Christian-Jaque with a nice feeling for detail as well as for movement, the picture is concerned with the remarkably successful cooperation among individuals in a crisis which knits them together, although they are spread out from Africa to the North Sea. The story tells of some French fishermen on a ship three days out from shore who are suddenly stricken with food poisoning. Their radio refuses to function and the worried captain decides to try sending a short wave call for help. A radio ham in Africa hears the plea, and summons a doctor to the transmitter to give medical advice. He tells the captain that serum must be obtained within 12 hours or all who are poisoned will be dead. A hysterical crew member illogically blames the ship’s predicament on the fact that the have an Arab on board whom he considers bad luck. The Muslim, however, is the only person spared from the poisoning since his religion forbade him to eat the same as the others. This fact helps save their lives. Based on a true story, the film was previously a Golden Laurel winner at the Edinburgh Film Festival. – Theresa Loeb Cone, Oakland Tribune The crew of a trawler in the North Atlantic is stricken with botulism and radios for help. A succession of short-wave amateurs from Togoland to Paris to East and West Berlin and finally Denmark rise above their personal problems, obtain the necessary serum and, just in time, get it parachuted down to the fishermen… The film skids along efficiently enough from one crisis to the next, and its theme of international co-operation at street level is a Cold War antidote… of interest today for the involvement of the usually more cynical Henri-Georges Clouzot (he co-scripted), for marking the debut of Trintignant and providing the genesis of Tony Hancock’s TV classic ‘The Radio Ham’. Pierre Fresnay narrates. – Time Out Film Guide |
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