Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play, which two years ago had a hit-or-miss run in Los Angeles, was slow starting in Chicago. The critics were brutal, saying such things as "The Great Northern Theater is going to be a parking lot if it doesn't watch out." For months the enterprise squeaked through by selling two tickets for the price of one-mostly to high-school-age smirkers. In January it was set to close, but was taken over by a saloonkeeper and a hat-check man who abandoned the play's haphazard promotion for a frontal attack featuring sex. Lately...
Hangmen Also Die (United Artists) is another in a long line of inside-Occupied-Europe melodramas, tailored according to a pat Hollywood formula: murder, intrigue, brutal beatings, black villains, hair-raising escapes and love-under-difficulties. Although Director Fritz Lang gives this familiar material occasional touches of distinction, the picture still misses Grade A rank...
...hero and heroine are thoroughly drab; the comic characters are far more interesting. The villain dominates the proceedings, but it is doubtful whether he is a serious or a comic character. One moment he is a brutal, psychopathic murderer who keeps pictures of nekkid women on his walls. The next moment, the best sequence in the show, he is made fun of in a riotous song. "Pore Jud Gray Is Dead." Two minutes after Jud has accidentally killed himself in a fight with the hero, the lovers ride off singing the hit song, "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning...
Eicke joined Hitler in 1921, became Standartenjiihrer of the Palatinate Storm Troops. Later he helped found the fanatically brutal, black-shirted SS. In 1932, when he was caught trying to assassinate a democratic politician, he fled to Italy. When Hitler came into power, Eicke came home to head the SS Death's Head Brigade-the guards who tortured into pulp the minds and bodies of anti-Nazi Germans in the new concentration camps. Eicke was warden of Dachau, and there he was in his element: he meted out the most indecent punishments himself...
...newsmen stopped short when they saw this sign in the Scottish highlands last week. They read the brutal details on white crosses over neatly heaped graves. "This man forgot to examine his climbing rope"; "This Royal Marine walked in front of his pal's rifle"; "This officer put a bomb down a three-inch mortar the wrong way"; "This man took up a position against the skyline...