TELL IT TO THE MARINES INTELLIGENCE
THE COCKLESHELL HEROES
6. . . the story is true and memorable . . . it is like many British war filmS, and unlike almost all the American speci- mens, in telling its story with a good deal of accuracy and with an accent on understatement.'—Manchester Guardian.
`It is excusable to use members of the Armed Forces for film-making only when the films are intended to record his- tory accurately and to serve the national good in a broad sense . . . but the film makes no pretence of historical accuracy . . . showmanship of this kind is not the way to make [the Marines'] good case.'—The Observer.
. . an accurate account of pioneering experiment in frog- manship.'—Daily Mail.
. . fictitious in detail.'—Daily Telegraph.
`Tell the Marines to see this picture—and this time you can mean it.'—Daily Herald.
. . most of these marines seem of a sort that never was on land or. sea.'—New Chronicle.
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