Word: asylums
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...Emil Horyna, Czechoslovak military attache in Istanbul, who asked the Turkish government for asylum...
...Western police arrested one of the East German policemen. Slamming down the zone barrier, the East German guards threatened to keep the international highway closed until their captured comrade was returned. An hour later, the barrier went up again. The arrested East German policeman had asked for and obtained asylum in the Western sector of Berlin...
...Scarf (Joseph Justman; United Artists) tackles another pressing problem: the plight of a multimillionaire's foster son (John Ireland) who escapes from a desert asylum for the criminal insane to find out whether he really committed the murder that put him there five years before. Mercedes McCambridge gamely turns up again, this time as a singing waitress who helps Ireland recover his lost memory and uncover the true culprit: a madman with a thriving business as a psychologist...
Only Actor James (Tobacco Road) Barton emerges with credit; he gives a salty performance as a turkey-raising hermit who befriends the escaped asylum inmate. Scripter-Director E. A. Dupont garnishes the picture's disjointed hokum with meticulous pictorial compositions that serve as hollow reminders of his eminence as a German director (Variety...
When a theologian dared to take issue with the Orthodox Church, the Czar pronounced him insane, ordered him committed to an asylum. After a series of special treatments, the man confessed that the Czar was right, he was indeed insane-a story that might, with a twist or two, have come straight out of the Moscow treason trials or out of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...