Word: apfel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attacks on British ships in the 23-month-old war were brought to 60 and the 78th British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English...
Like many other stage plays converted to the screen, this production has a vigorous, staccato dialogue to atone for its lack of pictorial beauty. The smaller parts are on the whole excellently played. We like particularly Oscar Apfel as Editor Hinchcliffe. He regarded the words "scandal", "sex", and "sensational" with squeamishness; preferred saying "human interest...