Word: colins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second stroke fell. How damnably timed they were! The time taken in handing the cane over to the next monitor and his run across the library was just enough for Colin to realize the sickness of the pain of the first blow without any of its sting wearing off. . . . Two more! How they could lay in! And only half. He began to feel sick...
...them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot: the scene darker, the shelling outside harder, the only sign of life in the dugout a guttering candle, which slowly goes...
...Colin Clive is a descendant of Lord Robert Clive, famed 18th Century campaigner who "won India for England," stalemated the crooked politicians of his time, and committed suicide when he was 50. Like other Clives, Colin was sent to Sandhurst (Royal Military College of England). One day he broke his knee at riding maneuvers. Because the knee stiffened after it healed, he was disqualified for a commission. A good-looking fellow, he got some stage jobs, played in London companies of Rose Marie, Show Boat, The Way of an Eagle. Last year he married a French actress named Jeanne...
...them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen?a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot: the scene darker, the shelling outside harder, the only sign of life in the dugout a guttering candle, which slowly goes...
...Colin Clive is a descendant of Lord Robert Clive, famed 18th Century campaigner who "won India for England," stalemated the crooked politicians of his time, and committed suicide when he was 50. Like other Clives, Colin was sent to Sandhurst (Royal Military College of England). One day he broke his knee at riding maneuvers. Because the knee stiffened after it healed, he was disqualified for a commission. A good-looking fellow, he got some stage jobs, played in London companies of Rose Marie, Show Boat, The Way of an Eagle. Last year he married a French actress named Jeanne...