Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publicity, refuses to play along with Benko's boy. "Carry him for six rounds," Benko begs. "You don't want to louse up the film rights." Baer refuses, and what happens next is a ghastly digest of the 1934 fight, in which Baer gave Carnera the most brutal beating he ever took (eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds), and won the heavyweight championship. The eleven rounds are condensed into several of the most savage minutes seen on screen in recent years, and when they are over, the ring looks like a butcher's block...
...Steiger, whose mock-murderous mood makes it a smash, and Jan Sterling, who could have been the sexually-repressed daughter of a prurient minister. As we said to our companion as we came out of the U.T., The Harder They Fall is a sweaty, brutal, and challenging social document...
...Last Ten Days (Cosmopolfilm; Columbia) is perhaps the best picture produced in Central Europe since the war. Made in Austria, it was flung before the German people at the time their sovereignty was restored, as a brutal reminder of the price they paid for political folly, as a hair of the mad dog that bit them. Based on a book by Michael A. Musmanno, a U.S. judge at the Nürnberg trials, the film tells the story of the last ten days in Hitler's headquarters in Berlin, at the end of World War II. Facts are respected...
...hrushchev's big thrust for power began back in 1937 when Stalin picked him to pacify the Ukraine, then in ferment as a result of Stalin's brutal collectivization of the rich farm lands. What made Khrushchev the right man for the job was that he was a peasant and could be expected to handle the peasants in terms they understood...
...brutal story of treachery unfolded at the trial. Strasserra was an authentic hero of the resistance, with an unimpeachably anti-Fascist record. Trained by the OSS at Bari, he and an aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with...