Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have not been corrupt," insisted one honest Shanghai druggist. "I don't care how long you investigate. You can shoot me if you like, but I am not going to confess." It did him no good. The "masses present," said Shanghai's Communist Liberation Daily, merely became angry; they demanded his arrest anyway. "Thus was one more stubborn tiger sniffed out and exterminated...
Sound trucks twisted through business and mercantile districts in Communist China's biggest cities last week, stopped before shops and blared: "Hey, proprietor! Evidence of all your misdeeds is now in our hands. Confess!" Huge banners flapped over city streets: "Sternly punish corruption culprits." Panicky merchants, traders, bankers, businessmen cowered before Red inquisitors, fidgeted in police stations or waited for the police to come. Throughout most of the country, commerce limped toward a standstill...
...Oxford Group." Beverley was not impressed by Leader Buchman, who was "so slick and starched and glossy that he suggested an American dentist: one felt he was always on the point of saying 'Open wide!'" But he fell for the Groupers' open-wide habit of confessing their sins to each other-until the disillusioning day when he himself tried to confess to a young lady-Grouper. With a scream of "Oh, really!" his confessor "shot away like a frightened deer...
Family Secret is something of a problem movie. A law school student accidentally kills his best friend in a drunken brawl. There are no witnesses and he decides not to confess. The story deals with the strained relationships arising from this situation...
...Cobb as the murderer's father gives a masterful performance. Shaken by the boy's decision not to confess, he finds himself defending the man who has been falsely accused. He tries to proceed without recognizing his peculiar position. The other characters involved have similar problems, all revolving around the action of the guilty boy, John Derek. Further comment would give way what amounts to an intensely absorbing plot...