Word: amok
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm. The spider runs amok, hangs the two convicts from the rafters, drains them of blood, but not before one of them has annoyed the heroine by locking her in the spider's closet. The prison warden (Frank Shannon) points a suspicious finger at first one person, then another. The Japanese butler makes bright...
...first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...
...once done the Indian a great favor. He has a chance to show his gratitude when the brother underlines the difficulties of inter-racial marriage. Indian pictures always show holymen, elephants, snake-charmers and at least one tiger-hunt. Son of India sticks to its caste: the elephant runs amok when hit by a knife, hurled at Novarro...
...AMOK-Stefan Zweig-Viking...
...descendent of Ghengis Khan. He is rescued by the men who shot him, brought back to health, and dressed up as a prince in order that his people will ally themselves with their former enemies. In the end, one of his people is shot at his feet, he runs amok, and is shown at the close, sweeping over the plains at the head of his Mongol tribesmen...