. The late Jay Leyda, America's leading authority on Soviet film, always held a somewhat jaundiced view of this film-but the New York Times unreservedly cried out that "it comes close to being the best thing that the Soviet studios have turned out." Another propagandist adventure culled from the Revolution, it is hardly subtle in its too-often-underlined political hard-sell. But it does have stirringly staged battle scenes, and unexpected moments of real comedy and humanity. Traditional Russian films of the thirties, Eisenstein excepted, are so rarely shown these days that this really notable one may be a real surprise for many of you. --WKE The Story: This film, like Potemkin, brings into play the Navy's role, here,during the Civil War that followed the October Revolution. Members of the Red Army, including the Marines, are dispatched to protect Petrograd against the invasion of Whites, led by General Yudenitch. The political awakening of a sailor in the fleet stationed at Kronstadt, the Baltic Sea base, forms the central message.