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...story: early Christianity under the Roman Empire. Based on the famed bestseller of the late Rev. Lloyd C. Douglas, the film contains more piety than wit and more spectacle than humanity, but it is ably served by a competent cast headed by Britain's Richard (My Cousin Rachel) Burton...
...epicurean Roman grudgingly won over to evangelical Christianity, highborn Burton is the successful rival of Prince Regent Caligula (Jay Robinson) for the hand of Jean Simmons, a ward of the Emperor Tiberius. When he further annoys the evil Caligula by outbidding him for a particularly stiff-necked Greek slave (Victor Mature), Burton is exiled to Palestine, where he lolls decadently in the baths and drinks wine while his slave Mature becomes a convert to the new religion...
...case. "We think further proceedings ... are unwarranted. A conspiracy was charged and proved . . . the Atomic Energy Act [of 1946] did not repeal or limit the provisions of the Espionage Act [of 1917]. Accordingly, we vacate the stay entered by Mr. Justice Douglas ..." Concurring with Vinson, were: Associate Justices Harold Burton, Tom Clark, Robert Jackson, Sherman Minton, Stanley Reed. Against were Justices Douglas and Hugo Black. Justice Felix Frankfurter could not make up his mind...
John H. Mahan, Biochemical Sciences; Burton G. Malkiel, Economics; M. Joel Mandelbaum, Music; James W. Mason, English; Ralph N. Maud, English; Paul T. McElroy, Physics; Abbott R. Miller, Chemistry; Bruce H. Morgan, Physics; Ivan Nabokoff, English; John R. O'Brien, Government; Roger S. Peterson, Biology; Stephen R. Petschek, History and Literature; Glen A. Rebka, Jr., Physics; Walter R. Reitman, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Richard L. Renfield, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Rodman D. Rhodes, English; Robert Rosenman, Government...
...battle of El Alamein, but The Desert Rats flashes back some 18 months to depict the 1941 siege of Tobruk, where the Nazi blitzkrieg was stopped for the first time. Against this factual background, the scenarists have set a fictional plot about a tough British captain (Richard Burton) with a soft spot in his heart for his alcoholic old ex-schoolteacher (Robert Newton), a private with the Australian 9th Division...