Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more successful than previous attempts at the topical article have been. It deals with the efforts of military prosecutors to convict the officers and men of a German regiment for the murder of American prisoners of war during the Battle of the Bulge, and is a straightforward account of brutal tactics used by the prosecution, based on facts which the editors say were uncovered but not printed by a large metropolitan daily. As a piece of reporting, the Malmedy article is a fine...
...Lady Gambles (Paramount) gets off to a shocking start with a handsomely photographed sequence showing Barbara Stanwyck taking a brutal beating in a murky underground passage. Barbara's crap-shooting friends have just caught her with a pair of loaded dice...
...consistently top-level. Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart, as the crippled brother and manager of the champion, make perfect foils for Douglas. Their humaneness and concern are in sharp contrast with his simple-minded machine destruction; their relative smallness, in spite of their warmth, shows all the more his brutal greatness...
...roamed the mining settlements of the hill country like a hunter; he raided bootleggers (often without benefit of a search warrant), impounded slot machines and took a brutal delight in pistol-whipping lawbreakers and cursing their wives and womenfolk. One day his automobile blew up as he stepped on the starter-somebody had inserted dynamite caps in the engine. Somehow Ambrose Metcalfe walked away unhurt.* Once a moonshiner blasted at him with a shotgun; he was only grazed...
...fast riding and hard shooting, El Paso leaves a mildly unpleasant aftertaste. Its muddled moralizing on civil rights, sandwiched into its brutal, juicily detailed lynchings, makes an unappetizing dish. By contrast, the Cinecolor is fairly sweet and clean...