Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story is based on fact makes little difference in the end. Nothing particularly original is added to the standard spy-movie formula, and the treatment is heavy-handed. Although the individual performances are good, the characters are presented completely without shading. The Germans are all psychopathic and incredibly brutal; the English and French, efficient and completely fearless. The dialogue is amusing in spots, but most of the time it drags. For example, when Captain Churchill and Odette meet in a German prison camp...
...First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
Freedom Liquidated. There was no daylight for La Prensa. This had been the showdown. Peron had, in effect, liquidated his great critic. But, as visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller told Argentina's strong man last week, the brutal suppression of freedom would cost him dearly in his standing with...
...detective, Sergeant F. A. Brown of the Los Angeles Homicide squad, told the CRIMSON that the reports, which stated that he had conferred with University officials about the brutal killing of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in January 1947, were "lies . . . and had no basis in fact." The reports alleged that an entry in Miss Short's diary had led Brown to a suspect who "is now a student at Harvard...
...made in England, purports to be a movie about U.S. gangsters. Adapted from a claptrap novel by Britain's James Hadley Chase (real name: Rene Raymond), who once confessed cribbing from U.S. hard-boiled fiction, the picture outraged London (TIME, May 10, 1948). Censors howled that it was brutal, sadistic, sensual; critics slammed it as "a piece of nauseating muck...