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A Memory Course. Wrong as Wang proved to be about this observation (he was shot), Communist policy generally is to promise soft treatment for those who publicly confess their corruption. Once on the confession stand, the penitent is regarded with derision if he can remember no other misdemeanors but his...
Denis went to confession, but confession had become meaningless. To himself he said: "God is dead. There is no one else but us." It was wartime, and when their town in occupied France was bombed, Sister Clothilde went to her family's house in the country. Denis' unsuspecting...
But for all this he was a fine seaman and a cool and capable officer. Some of his crew could remember how he had reacted four years ago when one of his "black gang" was found on the deck spouting blood from knife wounds in the throat and arms. There...
"The Conveyer." Weissberg soon learned that a claim to innocence was considered insufferable "provocation" by the G.P.U.-a deliberate attempt to undermine the confidence of the police authorities. Moreover, his rank entitled him to fabricate a really stunning spy story, superior in every way, for instance, to that of the...
The task of lifting Marie du Port out of the muck of mediocrity therefore falls to Gabin. He succeeds. The story--a middle-aged man's vain attempts to stay away from an appealing eighteen-year-old--is not particularly sparkling, nor are the camera shots of a small French...