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“The Rear Guard”
Consumers today are being sold sweaters labeled “100% Virgin Acrylic,” and George Roy Hill makes movies that are 100% pure plastic. THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER doesn't mar, and wipes clean with a damp cloth. It’s a new version of the gallant-aviator movies, such as THE LOST SQUADRON, of 1932, in which Richard Dix and Joel McCrea played aviators, unemployed after the First World War was over, who went out to Hollywood and became stunt men, recreating the…