Wild Blue Yonder

Films like this one may soon replace the comic book as a means of luring students into the R.O.T.C. They show what fun the big boys have with real guns and million dollar airplanes, and also promote the rosy illusion that War is pretty much of a picnic.

"Wild Blue Yonder" centers on the crew of a B-29 during the last war. Led by an oestrum-happy pilot (Wendel Corey) and a slap-happy sergeant (Phil Harris), these fellows really have themselves a ball. Why, on their very first flight they take the plane up to high altitude, against orders, and the resulting pressure blows one of the gunners out of the plane like a bullet.

But eventually the fun at home runs out and the boys whip over to Asia, where they get a good laugh at the primitive methods used by Chinese peasants in runway construction. Then its on to the Pacific islands.

The latest Korean news films are on the same bill with "Wild Blue Yonder" --they point up the enormous contrast between war movies, and war.