Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient, ponderous rituals began. Swiss Guards drew a heavy iron chain across the Gandolfo Palace entrance, and in Rome the great bronze doors of St. Peter's clanged shut. Attendants removed the flannel pajamas in which the Pope died and dressed the body in a white silk cassock and an ermine-trimmed crimson velvet cape. Sister Pasqualina, the German nun who had been the Pope's devoted housekeeper, had a small ritual of her own. She assembled the Pope's half-dozen pet birds and, carrying their cage and two suitcases, left for an unannounced destination...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's black and white drama about a chain-gang escape, with Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's black and white drama about a Southern chain-gang escape, with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...
...Defiant Ones is yet another example of what too much money and too low an opinion of the general mentality can do to a potentially fine picture. The basic idea is a fine one: a white convict and a black one escape from a chain gang together. They hate one another as only a poor white and a down-trodden negro can; but they must co-operate in even the simplest act of daily life...