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TYRONE

His latest film, now triumphing in Mexico, began its third week of resounding success

Of course now the films of Tyrone Power are valued more, because of the sad, dramatic aura obtained by all who die, regardless of their social status.

Tyrone was one of the favorite actors of the entire public, without exception. Including, of course, the Mexican audience.

The most recent demonstration -- the current proof is the success of Tyrone's latest film, screening in Mexico City. Not the last film, we mean, filmed [by Tyrone] but in theaters in Mexico: Abandon Ship [El Mar no perdona = The Sea Does Not Forgive].

This film, which is screening in a first-run theater in the capital has already been in release for three weeks.

The plot is a dramatic one. Tyrone, by pure accident, his life governed by random chance, becomes the captain of a boat which is shipwrecked when it collides with a mine. In a lifeboat that has about 20 survivors. The shipwrecked passengers choose Tyrone to be the captain as the former captain has died. This includes Tyrone putting on the dead man’s uniform. And so begins his command over the shipwrecked survivors. A violent, bitter, extraordinarly difficult command. He must ration the food. Also, the water.

Various stories cross with the one the makeshift Captain Tyrone Power must live: the party girl who is obsessed with flirting and retains some of her spirit in spite of the drama she is experiencing; the Italian man in love with the flirt; the balding veteran general with the broad pate and sculpted features who resembles a Roman senator, and who sees the dismaying choices that life presents during this time when death blows a foul breeze over the faces of those condemned to die; the writer, also on the boat of death, with the keen, sharp look of one who deep down is enjoying the entire drama in hopes of surviving and writing about it in his next book.

Tyrone, in this Columbia production, has a passionate romance with Mai Zetterling, who was his lover before the disaster. She looks upset, as if to indicate her astonishment towards everything that develops in her feminine existence. This woman in love with Tyrone reminds us of the French actress Michele Morgan from some years ago, who had the same severe expression that was, at the same time, very sweet. Youthful Mai, who is the other lead along with Tyrone, is a nurse. And, of course, she is Tyrone’s ally during their oceanic escape.

Unusual human reactions by Tyrone and the other survivors when they try to save the life of a dog, while dispensing with the lives of human beings. But in the shipwrecked people’s lifeboat, the old people and those with the least chance of survival, are abandoned in the open sea, in order to lighten the boat’s load, to save food, to save water.

In contrast to this, the dog is a valuable element: before long it will be necessary to use him as food for the survivors!

Photo caption:
The story's unforseen disaster make him captain of a boat of shipwrecked passengers. The actor's character dominates a subject full of drama and action.