Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...load of rolled-up Turkish rugs and bundled household goods. Their escape route led past Gethsemane and Bethany to the Dead Sea, through Jericho, across the shallow Jordan by Allenby Bridge to Arab Trans-Jordan; then, past caravans of sneering camels, to the crowded, expensive hotels of Damascus and Beirut...
...many of the younger ones are suddenly deciding that this might be a good time to resume their studies at Oxford . . ." Meanwhile, Arab papers trumpeted minor troop shufflings as major victories. When a detachment of Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion took positions around Jericho (under British commanders), one Beirut paper headlined: ABDULLAH'S ARMY STANDS BEFORE JERUSALEM...
Arabesque is mainly a pleasantly concocted adventure story. A bilingual beauty named Armande Herne, stranded in Beirut in 1941, piques the curiosity of both French and British Intelligence. Odd though it seems, she is neither a poule de luxe nor a Nazi agent-just a lonely woman. No sooner have the security police made certain of this than they succeed in putting ideas in her pretty head: she should use her charm to strike a blow for Britain...
...story by itself is nothing. What makes the movie is its splendid portrayal of the narcotics agents who help Powell along the way--agents in Shanghai, Cairo, Beirut, Havana, each of whom is caught up for a moment as the great stream of pursuit sweeps by, and then slips away again into the quiet backwaters of his own little world. "To the Ends of the Earth" is, in fact, a story of human cooperation against a common enemy. It knows no international boundaries. And above all, it is true...
...Ends of the Earth (Columbia) shows Treasury Agent Dick Powell hounding his quarry from San Francisco to Shanghai to Cairo to Beirut to Havana to New York. The picture has something of the gallivanting glamour of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. It is based on actual files in the Narcotics Bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department...