Word: calms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary, the peasants of Gyor county brought their finest gifts: flour, bread, wine and suckling pigs. They were proud that Laszlo Rajk, the second man to Matyas Rakosi in the Communist Party, should head the election lists in their district. Rajk thanked them with a simple speech, in calm and measured accents...
Playing a paunchy, mother-dependent killer, Cagney empties his pistol into his victim with the calm, preoccupied expression of a pedestrian waiting for a street light to change. There is none of the shock technique of The Public Enemy -no audience-deafening gun blasts, no close-ups of the killer's eyes or of the sickening sprawl of the corpse. The new brutality is streamlined. .White Heat is sprinkled with an improved type of wrist action in blackjacking, so effective that the camera does not even bother to examine the victim. The traditional movie chase, with its essentially simple...
...Worth ever passed around copies of a mysterious nine-page document, which summed up the rumor-ridden case against the B-36? Yes, Worth admitted frankly, he had "Where did you get this document from?" Vinson demanded. Replied Worth in a crisp, calm voice: "I wrote it." Three wire-service reporters dashed for the door...
...part of the government drive, launched at Vitsi three weeks ago, to wipe out the guerrillas this fall. The Communists had fought back hard. Even after being bombed and shelled, many stuck to their pinelog pillboxes, engaged the advancing government troops hand-to-hand. At nightfall, as a weird calm settled over the battlefields, U.N. observers spotted the dimmed lights of Albanian truck convoys moving up & down from the border, carrying off the wounded and bringing in reinforcements. Outside a Greek headquarters tent sat forlorn groups of Red prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member of the Greek...
...time the hurricane comes along to give Widmark a crack at heroic redemption (and to blow some fresh air onto the screen), it is too late to redeem the film from a dead calm of dimly motivated banalities...