Word: brinks
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...Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), a humdrum family man, stops on the way to his club to gaze at a glamorous portrait in a gallery window. When the portrait's model (Joan Bennett) turns up and they fall into conversation, the professor feels he is on the brink of adventure. Throwing caution to the winds, he goes to her apartment-quite literally to look at etchings. But when the girl's lover bursts in and attacks him, Wanley in self-defense stabs him to death with a pair of scissors...
Side by side with the German terror flourished a Greek terror. The British had expected to arrive as liberators. Instead, since the bulk of the German forces had been withdrawn, they found themselves playing the role of policeman to a country on the brink of civil war - and sometimes over the brink. The Greek resistance forces wore the insignia of E.A.M. (leftwing National Liberation Front) or E.L.A.S. (E.A.M.'s fighting...
...Backed by a grieving hedge of civilians, two Russian Orthodox priests pace the brink of a huge common grave, sprinkling holy water...
...staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...
...Though Germany has fought on only one front, she has been "driven to the brink of disaster." But "never in history has the enemy himself jumped over the precipice. To win a war it is necessary to bring the opponent to the brink . . . and shove him over. . . . For this it is necessary to continue perfecting the military skill of the men and commanders ... to study enemy tactics constantly and to counter his tactics with more perfect tactics...