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...17th Century English traders built a fort on the Gold Coast, competed fiercely with Dutch, Danes and Portuguese for slaves and gold. Early in the 19th Century the slave traffic was abolished. Today, in a jungle domain almost as large as Oregon, the leading enterprises are cocoa production, gold and manganese mining...
...girl and the ruthless woman. In one scene, we see her primping like a vain child before her large oval mirror; in another, she is the inscrutable defendant sitting stiffly on a bench at her own nerve-racking trial. Could this girl have put arsenic in her lover's cocoa...
...peace talk was good for stocks, it was bad news for war-inflated commodities. At week's end grains, wool, hides and cocoa went tumbling in the futures market. So did cotton, which a few days earlier had reached its highest price (44.14? a Ib.) since the Civil War. The Dow-Jones futures index plunged 5.71 points, a record break for a single day, and lowest since...
When Meinel got his news, other astronomers swarmed in from all over the observatory. They congratulated him on a really important accomplishment, which opens a new branch of astrophysics by permitting a detailed study of material ejected by a typical star, the sun. They toasted him in hot cocoa. Then Astronomer Meinel, worn out with nervous excitement, went to bed with exhaustion and a virus infection...
Fortunately, Director Lean's sure technique keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many...